Noam Chomsky discusses U.S. political class ‘fears’ relating to China as an emerging superpower.
Posts Tagged ‘American Empire’
Chomsky’s Lectern: China and the New World Order
Posted: 2 September 2010 by Noam Chomsky in Chomsky's Lectern, International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, American Empire, Andrew Bacevich, Bush Administration, China, Clinton Administration, imperialism, Iraq War, NATO, Noam Chomsky, South Korea, US, war games, war spending
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Meet the New Boss—Part I: Empire
Posted: 19 May 2010 by Kevin Carson in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, American Empire, Bush Administration, Canada, Central America, China, FDR, imperialism, Iraq War, Kevin Carson, Mexico, NAU, Newspeak, Noam Chomsky, Obama Administration, QDR, Quadrennial Defense Review, Samuel Huntington, US, War, War on Terror, William Appleman Williams, WWII
Report: Secret Baghdad Prison Detainees Describe Brutal Torture, Rape, Humiliation
Posted: 28 April 2010 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Abu Ghraib, Al Rusafa Detention Center, American Empire, Antavillai, Ayad Allawi, Baghdad, Bagram Air Base, black jails, CIA, democracy, HRW, Human Rights Watch, immigrat jail, imperialism, Iraq, Iraq Civil War, Iraq elections, Iraq War, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, lithuania, Muthanna, Ned Parker, Ninveh, Nouri al-Maliki, NYC, Obama Administration, OLC, Sam Dagher, secret prisons, sectarianism, Sheik Abdullah Humed, stress positions, torture, Varick Street Detention Center
42 men interviewed describe similar accounts of being extensively tortured while in captivity at a Baghdad prison, secret until recently.
Okinawa: ‘American Pawns’
Posted: 26 April 2010 by Little Alex in Political ScienceTags: American Empire, child abuse, child prostitution, DPJ, Futenma, Japan, Obama Administration, Okinawa, US, Vietnam War, War, WWII
The Obama Administration is muscling the Japanese government, whose prime minister is exceedingly popular on everything except the U.S. occupation of Okinawa. Over 100,000 people protested the base in Okinawa (2:36):
Was Joe Stack a Terrorist? (Video)
Posted: 16 April 2010 by Editors in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, National News, Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: 9/11, American Empire, anti-Americanism, Bush Administration, Chris Matthews, Democrats, fascism, imperialism, IRS, Islamic terrorism, Joe Stack, Joe Vernon, liberals, libertarian, liberty, Middle East, MSNBC, neoconservatives, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Osama bin Laden, progressives, Rachel Maddow, Republicans, Steve King, tea party movement, terrorism, US, War, War on Terror
Jack Hunter, a.k.a. “The Southern Avenger”, doesn’t think to nonsensically disagree he was. But adds that understanding terrorism isn’t condoning it, but imperative to ending it—no matter what dirt on what hemisphere on which the terrorist was born (5:24):
New Russia-Backed Kyrgyz Regime ‘Should’ Shut Down Key U.S. Military Base
Posted: 8 April 2010 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Abkhazia, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, American Empire, anti-Statism, Brazil, BRIC, China, corporatism, Federal Reserve, fiat money, Five-Day War, Georgia, gold, Gulf Cooperation Council, Gulf Monetary Union, IMF, India, Iran, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Kyrgyzstan, libertarian, liberty, Manas Air Base, market-anarchism, Obama Administration, Russia, Russo-Georgia War, Saudi Arabia, Scott Horton, South Ossetia, Sucre, Tulip Revolution, US, Vladmir Putin, World Bank
Russia plus its aid demands a base vital to the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and imperial mobilization in Central Asia be shut down.
Malcolm X on Slaves Doing the Masters’ Bidding
Posted: 22 March 2010 by Little Alex in National News, Political ScienceTags: Adolf Hitler, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, AIPAC, American Empire, anarchism, anti-Statism, bailout, banking, corporatism, Democratic Party, Democrats, economy, fascism, Federal Reserve, field negro, health care, healthcare reform, house negro, human rights, Iraq, law, libertarian, liberty, Malcolm X, Middle East, Newspeak, Noam Chomsky, Obama, Obama Administration, politics, propaganda, secession, Sheldon Richman, Somalia, Twitter, US, Wall Street, War, War on Terror, Yemen
Brother Malcolm lays out the game masters use to play their plantation against each other, form a system where the slaves fight each other for the masters’ approval, identify with the master who kills him slowly. If you still think politics is the avenue toward justice, if politicians will ever dismantle the ruling class, if becoming one with State will moralize its inherent antisocial nature, if politicians will ever really give a shit about you; if you still cling to the self-defeating belief that there’s an ounce of virtue in loving ‘your’ country, supporting ‘your’ president, exercising ‘your’ democratic opportunities by pulling a lever like a Pavlovian monkey every 2-4 years, Malcolm had something to say to you (8:32):
Arundhati Roy: ‘What is Peace? We Need Resistance and Not Just on the Weekends’ (Video)
Posted: 22 March 2010 by Editors in India-Pakistan; 26/11, International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: 26/11, activism, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, American Empire, Amy Goodman, Anjali Kamat, Bush Administration, communists, corporatism, democracy, Democracy Now, DN, fascism, Gandhi, genocide, George Bush, GK Pillai, human rights, imperialism, India, international law, Iraq, Iraq War, Kashmir, Kishenji, Koteswar Rao, liberal democracies, Manmohan Singh, Maoist, Mumbai attacks, Naxalites, Newspeak, Obama Administration, occupation, Operation Green Hunt, Pakistan, poverty, resistance, revolution, rigged elections, Taliban, terrorism, US, voting, War, War on Terror
Indian author and dissident Arundhati Roy calls democracy “the biggest scam on Earth” in a climate where so-called ‘democracies’ are the driving forces of war, poverty and disenfranchisement. She provides harsh, educated critiques of the American Empire and India’s U.S.-enabled occupation of Kashmir and oppression within in an interview with Amy Goodman and Anjali Kamat at Democracy Now!
Chomsky’s Lectern: The Unipolar Moment and the Culture of Imperialism (Video)
Posted: 8 December 2009 by Noam Chomsky in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: American Empire, American history, American Indians, Anglo-Saxon superiority, annexation wall, apartheid, Brazil, Bush Doctrine, Chile, CIA, Colombia, colonization, Darwinism, democracy, Edward Said, El Salvador, ethnic cleansing, fascism, foreign aid, founding fathers, genocide, human rights, imperialism, indigenous people, international law, Israel, Latin America, liberation theology, libertarian, manifest destiny, Manuel Noriega, Middle East, Mikhail Gorbachev, Monroe Doctrine, morality, Native Americans, Nicaragua, Palestine, Palestine-Israel, Panama, Philosophy, political realism, racism, rationalism, realpolitik, settlements, South America, terrorism, unipolarism, US, USSR, War, War on Terror
Prof. Chomsky delivers the 5th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University School for International Affairs for the Heyman Center for the Humanities. After paying homage to Edward Said stressing imperialism as central to our culture, Prof. Chomsky builds his case with telling quotes of American leaders rationalizing and denying genocide of indigenous ‘new worlders’ through U.S. terrorism in Latin America—Chile, Brazil, El Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua, Colombia—and the Middle East (1:03:46):
Joya: Surge Only Magnifies Crime Against Afghanistan
Posted: 30 November 2009 by Editors in Af-Pak War, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, American Empire, Bush Administration, Central Asia, fascism, George Bush, Gordon Brown, Hamid Karzai, human rights, imperialism, international law, Iraq, Iraq War, ISAF, Israel, IVAW, Malalai Joya, Middle East, NATO, Newspeak, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, Obama Administration, Pakistan, UK, UNDP, US, War, War on Terror
Malalai Joya on the Obama Administration’s coming Afghan Surge to escalate the U.S.-led occupation.
Celente: Real Unemployment Over 22% (Video)
Posted: 8 November 2009 by Editors in Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, American Empire, anti-Statism, bailout, banking, corporatism, David Leonhardt, Department of Labor, economic crisis, economy, fascism, Gerald Celente, Great Recession, imperialism, Iraq War, libertarian, liberty, market-anarchism, Newspeak, NY Times, Obama, Raw Story, real unemployment, Stephen Webster, unemployment, unemployment insurance, US, War on Terror
A report stated ‘real unemployment could be around an all-time high 17.5%. Gerald Celente, a trends forecaster and economist, tells Russia Today that under the algorithm used before the Clinton Administration, ‘real unemployment could be around 22.1% (4:09):
Focusing on Ft. Hood Killer’s Beliefs an Easy Out to Avoid Deeper Reasons for the Massacre
Posted: 6 November 2009 by Editors in Political ScienceTags: Aaron Glantz, American Empire, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, Fort Hood Massacre, Ft. hood, going postal, imperialism, Iraq, Iraq War, Islam, Mark Ames, Middle East, murder-suicide, Nidal Malik Hasan, PTSD, racism, US, US military, Walter Reed, War, War on Terror, workplace homicide
“It is possible that having been at Walter Reed and having heard all these stories and been an Army psychiatrist and then knowing that he was going to deploy, that all of that caused him to snap,” said Aaron Glantz, editor of New America Media who focuses on the effects of the Iraq War on U.S. military personnel, to Amy Goodman at Democracy Now!.
Chomsky’s Lectern: Palestine and the Region in the Obama Era—The Emerging Framework (Video)
Posted: 2 November 2009 by Editors in Af-Pak War, Chomsky's Lectern, International Affairs, Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, American Empire, anarchism, annexation wall, antiwar activism, Anwar Sadat, apartheid, Bantustans, BDS, boycotts, Bush Administration, Camp David, Clinton Administration, COIN theory, counterinsurgency, Darfur, diplomacy, Egypt, Ehud Olmert, EU, European Union, fascism, Fatah, Gaza, Gaza Massacre, Goldstone Report, Hamas, Henry Kissinger, human rights, IAEA, ICC, India, international law, Iran, Israel, John Kerry, Jordan, law, Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East, Middle East oil, natural gas, Netanyahu, Newspeak, Noam Chomsky, Nobel Peace Prize, NPT, nuclear weapons, Obama, Obama Administration, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Operation Cast lead, OPT, Oslo Accords, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestine-Israel, Phillipines, piracy surge, PLO, Reagan Administration, Saddam Hussein, settlements, SOFA, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Taba Summit, Taliban, Tariq Ali, Teddy Rossevelt, terrorism, Tony Blair, Turkey, two-state solution, UN, UN Security Council, US, wage slavery, War, war crimes, water rationing, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Zionism
Historian and writer Tariq Ali and Professor Noam Chomsky speak in London 29 October 2009 on U.S. hypocrisy toward Iran, U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the U.S. role as Israel’s enabler and ‘mafia godfather’, Palestinian leadership’s ‘collaboration’ with the U.S. and Israel against a ‘solution’, international law, the hopes for peace in the near future and the double game the Obama Administration plays with its rhetoric and contrary actions. Mr. Ali begins speaking around the 7:00 mark, Prof Chomsky around the 21:00 mark and a Q&A follows where he suggests a “no-state solution” as “the best solution for the whole world”. (1:57:40):
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