By Noam Chomsky
In accordance with the hot York instances, Noam Chomsky is arguably an important highbrow alive.” yet he isn’t effortless to learn . . . or not less than he wasn’t until eventually those books got here alongside. made of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they provide anything now not stumbled on anyplace else: natural Chomsky, with each remarkable inspiration and penetrating perception intact, added in transparent, available, reader-friendly prose. released as 4 brief books within the recognized actual tale seriesWhat Uncle Sam quite desires; The wealthy Few and the stressed Many; secrets and techniques, Lies and Democracy; and the typical Goodthey’ve jointly bought virtually 600,000 copies. and so they proceed to promote yr after yr after 12 months simply because Chomsky’s principles develop into, if something, extra correct as time is going by means of. for instance, two decades in the past he mentioned that in 1970, approximately ninety% of foreign capital used to be used for alternate and long term investmentmore or much less effective thingsand 10% for hypothesis. by means of 1990, these figures had reversed.” As we all know, hypothesis persisted to extend exponentially. We’re paying the fee now for no longer heeding him them.
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Tens of thousands have been slaughtered and more than a million have become refugees. This is one of the most sordid episodes in US history—and it’s got a lot of competition. Teaching Nicaragua a lesson It wasn’t just El Salvador that was ignored by the mainstream US media during the 1970s. In the ten years prior to the overthrow of the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, US television—all networks—devoted exactly one hour to Nicaragua, and that was entirely on the Managua earthquake of 1972.
Every part of the new world order was assigned a specific function. The industrial countries were to be guided by the “great workshops”—Germany and Japan—who had demonstrated their prowess during the war and now would be working under US supervision. The Third World was to “fulfill its major function as a source of raw materials and a market” for the industrial capitalist societies, as a 1949 State Department memo put it. It was to be “exploited” (in Kennan’s words) for the reconstruction of Europe and Japan.
Salvadoran women are not just raped by the National Guard; their wombs are cut from their bodies and used to cover their faces. It is not enough to kill children; they are dragged over barbed wire until the flesh falls from their bones, while parents are forced to watch. Rev. Santiago goes on to point out that violence of this sort greatly increased when the Church began forming peasant associations and self-help groups in an attempt to organize the poor. By and large, our approach in El Salvador has been successful.