What Uncle Sam Really Wants

by Noam Chomsky

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'Chomsky's work is neither theoretical, nor ideological: it is passionate and righteous. It has some of the qualities of Revelations, the Old Testament prophets and Blake' Ken Jowitt, TLSA brilliant distillation of the real motivations behind U.S. foreign policy, compiled from talks and interviews completed between 1986 and 1991, with particular attention to Central America.Quotes from Noam Chomsky:* Contrary to what virtually everyone - left or right - says, the United States achieved its show more major objectives in Indochina. Vietnam was demolished. There's no danger that successful development there will provide a model for other nations in the region.* At exactly the moment it invaded Panama... the Bush administration announced new high-technology sales to China [and] plans... to lift ban on loans to Iraq... Compared to Bush's buddies in Baghdad and Beijing, Noriega looked like Mother Teresa.* Prospects are pretty dim for Eastern Europe. The West has a plan for it - they want to turn large parts of it into a new, easily exploitable part of the Third World. show less

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A brilliant distillation of the real motivations behind U.S. foreign policy, compiled from talks and interviews completed between 1986 and 1991, with particular attention to Central America.
Las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y el resto de los países se remontan, lógicamente, al origen de la historia norteamericana, pero la Segunda Guerra Mundial marcó una línea divisoria decisiva, de manera que empezaremos en ese punto. Mientras que la mayoría de nuestros rivales industriales fueron gravemente debilitados o totalmente destruidos por la guerra, Estados Unidos se benefició enormemente de ella. Nuestro territorio nunca sufrió un ataque directo, y al mismo tiempo la producción se multiplicó por tres. Incluso antes de la guerra, Estados Unidos ya era de lejos la primera potencia industrial del planeta, y lo era desde principios de siglo. Poseía el 50% de la riqueza mundial y controlaba ambas orillas de ambos show more océanos. Nunca había habido una potencia tan poderosa y con tal control del mundo. La elite que dictaba la política norteamericana era consciente de que el nuevo EEUU que surgiría de la Guerra se iba a convertir en la primera potencia global del planeta, y ya durante la guerra e inmediatamente después de ella planificaron cuidadosamente el diseño del paisaje de la posguerra. Ya que estamos en una sociedad abierta, podemos estudiar sus planes, que, por otra parte, eran claros y diáfanos. Los políticos norteamericanos, desde los del Departamento de Estado a los del Consejo de Política Exterior —uno de los canales de mayor influencia de los intereses económicos en la determinación de la política exterior—, estaban de acuerdo en que el dominio de Estados Unidos debía mantenerse. Pero había un amplio espectro de opiniones diversas sobre cómo conseguirlo. show less
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> LES DESSOUS DE LA POLITIQUE DE L'ONCLE SAM, par Noam Chomsky. — Le linguiste Noam Chomsky fait ici de la géopolitique: il nous livre un essai rigoureux sur la nature - impérialiste, dira-t-il - de l'empire états-unien. La quantité immense de faits tirés de sources fiables en fait un véritable ouvrage de référence sur les implications étrangères de notre voisin méridional.
Nous sommes dans le giron d'un empire, c'est-a-dire d'une civilisation devenue conquérante, et qui en a remplaçé bien d'autres. Et comme les autres, elle s'éteindra. show more Un livre d'une actualité débordante.
--Julien Simard (ICI.Radio-Canada.ca)

> LES DESSOUS DE LA POLITIQUE DE L'ONCLE SAM, par Noam Chomsky. — Ce livre est un ouvrage de référence vulgarisé et très pertinent sur les véritables méthodes, de moins en moins subtiles, du gouvernement états-unien pour conquérir le monde, toujours en utilisant les plus démunis ou en placant des dictateurs-marionnettes au pouvoir et en les manipulant de manière à ne pas se salir les mains. C'est cette ouvrage qui a déclenché mon intérêt pour la politique et mon aversion pour le gouvernement états-unien.
--Anne Dagenais Guertin, Montréal (ICI.Radio-Canada.ca)

> Noam Chomsky est une autorité morale incontestable que l'on ne peut ignorer si on veut comprendre la mentalité criminelle des dirigeants Américains. Pour savoir et comprendre, lire Noam Chomsky.
--erge Gingras, Aylmer (Gatineau) (ICI.Radio-Canada.ca)
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Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 7, 1928. Son of a Russian emigrant who was a Hebrew scholar, Chomsky was exposed at a young age to the study of language and principles of grammar. During the 1940s, he began developing socialist political leanings through his encounters with the New York Jewish intellectual show more community. Chomsky received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy. He conducted much of his research at Harvard University. In 1955, he began teaching at MIT, eventually holding the Ferrari P. Ward Chair of Modern Language and Linguistics. Today Chomsky is highly regarded as both one of America's most prominent linguists and most notorious social critics and political activists. His academic reputation began with the publication of Syntactic Structures in 1957. Within a decade, he became known as an outspoken intellectual opponent of the Vietnam War. Chomsky has written many books on the links between language, human creativity, and intelligence, including Language and Mind (1967) and Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use (1985). He also has written dozens of political analyses, including Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), Chronicles of Dissent (1992), and The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (1993). (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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What Uncle Sam Really Wants
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1992

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Nonfiction, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, History, Philosophy
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327.73Society, government, & culturePolitical scienceInternational Relations: SpiesNorth AmericaUnited States
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E183.7 .C48History of the United StatesUnited StatesHistoryDiplomatic history. Foreign and general relations.
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