"Gangster in the White House": Noam Chomsky on COVID-19, WHO, China, Gaza and Global Capitalism

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AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about what he’s threatening to do right now? First they reject the WHO tests, that would have been critical, and now saying they’re going to defund the World Health Organization.

NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, this is typical behavior of autocrats and dictators. When you make colossal errors which are killing thousands of people, find somebody else to blame. And in the United States, it’s unfortunately the case, for well over a century, century and a half, that it’s always easy to blame the “yellow peril.” The yellow — “They’re coming after us.” We’ve seen this all through my life, in fact way before. So, blame the World Health Organization, blame China, claim that the World Health Organization has insidious relations with China, is practically working for them. And that sells to a population that’s been deeply indoctrinated for a long time, way back to the Chinese Exclusion Acts in the 19th century, to say, “Yeah, those yellow barbarians are coming over to destroy us.” That’s almost instinctive.

And it’s backed up by the echo chamber, so, you know, say, Rush Limbaugh. Science is one of the four corners of deceit, along with the media, academia — I forget one of the others, but they’re the four corners of deceit. They live on deceit. You keep driving that into people’s heads. They say, “Why should we believe anything? Why should we believe the news? It’s just fake news. They’re all trying to destroy our savior, our president, the greatest president ever.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/17/noam_chomsky_coronavirus_trump_gaza_palestine

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1. While everyone is watching The Orange Menace, raid the treasury!

Are there reporters digging into what the rest of the administration* is doing?

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2. It's like a night raid.

Under the cover of darkness.

No, I haven't seen much yet on the merry band of corrupt, sycophants on their clandestine mission to take advantage of a national crisis. They must be working hard and using flashlights as they dig away.