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Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
Rodney Ulyate's review
bookshelves: imperialism, american-imperialism, iraq-war, afghanistan, war, global-warming, climate-change, politics, foreign-policy, foreign-policy-bush-george-w, foreign-policy-united-states, activism, anti-war, anti-war-movement, anti-imperialism, propaganda, world-war-i, 1953-iranian-coup-d-etat, bombing-of-tokyo, nuremberg-trials, bush-doctrine, weapon-of-mass-destruction, iraq, iraq-weapons-of-mass-destruction, iraq-disarmament-crisis, iran, el-salvador, grenada, nicaragua, guatemala, central-intelligence-agency, al-qaeda, sudan, foreign-policy-clinton-bill, vietnam, vietnam-war, my-lai-massacre, conscription, social-security-united-states, elite-media, bbc, new-york-times-the, wall-street-journal-the, financial-times, linguistics, economic-inequality, economic-issues-in-united-states, economics, middle-east, brazil, haiti, ideology, interview, cuba, mexico, 1954-guatemalan-coup-d-etat
Jul 09, 11
bookshelves: imperialism, american-imperialism, iraq-war, afghanistan, war, global-warming, climate-change, politics, foreign-policy, foreign-policy-bush-george-w, foreign-policy-united-states, activism, anti-war, anti-war-movement, anti-imperialism, propaganda, world-war-i, 1953-iranian-coup-d-etat, bombing-of-tokyo, nuremberg-trials, bush-doctrine, weapon-of-mass-destruction, iraq, iraq-weapons-of-mass-destruction, iraq-disarmament-crisis, iran, el-salvador, grenada, nicaragua, guatemala, central-intelligence-agency, al-qaeda, sudan, foreign-policy-clinton-bill, vietnam, vietnam-war, my-lai-massacre, conscription, social-security-united-states, elite-media, bbc, new-york-times-the, wall-street-journal-the, financial-times, linguistics, economic-inequality, economic-issues-in-united-states, economics, middle-east, brazil, haiti, ideology, interview, cuba, mexico, 1954-guatemalan-coup-d-etat
Read from July 08 to 09, 2011 — I own a copy, read count: 1
** spoiler alert **
NOTES:
p. 14: "Many of the issues about accession of the eastern countries to the European Union (EU) are related to this. The United States is strongly in favor of this accession process, because it is hoping that these countries will be more susceptible to U.S. influence and will be able to undermine the core of Europe, which is France and Germany, big industrial countries that could move in a somewhat more independent direction." Chomsky is probably thinking here of the Franco-German opposition to the Iraq War. He is probably not thinking of the cynical reasons for it.
p. 14: "Many of the issues about accession of the eastern countries to the European Union (EU) are related to this. The United States is strongly in favor of this accession process, because it is hoping that these countries will be more susceptible to U.S. influence and will be able to undermine the core of Europe, which is France and Germany, big industrial countries that could move in a somewhat more independent direction." Chomsky is probably thinking here of the Franco-German opposition to the Iraq War. He is probably not thinking of the cynical reasons for it.
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Quotes Rodney Liked
“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
“No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.”
― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
“The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say, 'We're sorry we did it,' that would be nice. But if that just assuages guilt, it's just another crime. To become minimally civilized, we would have to say, 'We carried out and benefited from vicious crimes. A large part of the wealth of France comes from the crimes we committed against Haiti, and the United States gained as well. Therefore we are going to pay reparations to the Haitian people.' Then you will see the beginnings of civilization.”
― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
Reading Progress
| 07/08/2011 | page 150 |
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63.0% | "'No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as "embedded." To say, "I'm an embedded journalist" is to say, "I'm a government Propagandist."'" |
