Friday Chomskyism

[marmar]

"In considering how human rights might serve as a 'guiding value' in American foreign policy, one should not dismiss the historical record, which is ample. There is indeed a close relationship between human rights and American foreign policy. There is substantial evidence that American aid and diplomatic support increase as human rights violations increase, at least in the Third World. Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of independent unions, etc.) are directly correlated with US government support. The linkage is not accidental; rather it is systematic. The reason is obvious enough. Client fascism often improves the business climate for American corporations, quite generally the guiding factor in foreign policy. It would be naïve indeed to think that this will change materially, given the realities of American social structure and the grip of the state ideological system."

-- Noam Chomsky



http://www.betterworld.net/quotes/globalization-quotes.htm

[lunatica]

1. "In the National Interest" and "National Security"

mean we have to control everything to our advantage and maintain our Superpower status at all cost. One of the ways of doing that is to squeeze our neighbors' economically to keep them as poor as possible and under our control. The College of The Americas trains Latin and South American torturers for that reason.

[marmar]

2. Very true......The School of Americas should be renamed Quash Democracy University

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