Who Rules the World? (American Empire Project)

by Noam Chomsky

David Ricardo,

to Eastern Europe in 1989, but on dubious grounds. In 1989, the democratic uprising was tolerated by the

Russians, and supported by Western power in accord with standard doctrine: it plainly conformed to economic and strategic objectives, and was therefore a noble achievement,

unlike the struggles at the same time “to def...

fundamental human rights” in Cent...

Grand Area doctrines

its threat to “stability”—in the technical sense of the term, meaning conformity to U.S. demands—

on the standard principle that we own the world.

While Grand Area doctrine

still prevails, the capacity to implement it has declined.

The peak of U.S. power was after World War II, when it had literally ha...

early 1970s, the U.S. share of global wealth had fallen to about 25 percent, and the industrial world had become tripolar: North America, Europe, and East Asia (then Japan-based).

radical concentration of wealth, primarily in the top fraction of one percent of the population—mostly CEOs,

hedge-fund managers, and the like.

regularly destroyed by the financial crises

Another fine target, always, is immigrants.

the white population will soon become a minority.

Mayans

Mexican

harm working people in all three of the participating

Much the same appears to be happening in Europe,

“flood of immigrants” and Marine Le Pen objects

neofascist parties

In Hungary, the neofascist party Jobbik

Austria the ultraright Jörg Haider

the Turks imported to do the dirty work in Germany

Benjamin Franklin, one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment, warned that the newly liberated colonies should be wary of allowing Germans to immigrate because they were too swarthy, and Swedes as well.

Anglo-Saxon purity were common in the United States,

which regularly becomes more virulent in times of economic distress.

but no one will come to the rescue if the environment is destroyed.

Almost all the Republicans are climate deniers.

the efficient market hypothesis,

“religion” that markets know best—

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, and diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.