Noam Chomsky Say

There are real and very serious civil and human rights issues, but the
Western reaction is pure hypocrisy. I've been bringing it up in talks and
interviews. Just to take one of many relevant examples, at the same time as
the recent repression in Tibet, Israel killed over 120 people in Gaza and
continued its atrocities in the West Bank, as always with strong US backing,
and EU silence. True, the US-Israel had a pretext, but it wasn't remotely
as strong as China's pretext in Tibet. Suppose that Palestinians rioted in
Jerusalem, killing many Jews, burning down Jewish stores and banks, etc. No
need to imagine the reaction-- with Western support. And that's illegally
occupied territory, not part of Israel. That's no defense of China's
actions. Rather, a comment on Western hypocrisy, which reeks to the skies.
Including the media of course, but it goes far beyond.

Noam on NAFTA

This is audio from a talk by Noam Chomsky on NAFTA, the winners and the losers.

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also, i was arguing with someone about how we should get out of iraq because we're just in there for the oil, and I wish I said this

"To gain control over this resource, and have probably military bases there, is a tremendous achievement for world control. You read counter-arguments to this, and they're worth looking at. So it's argued that it can't be true, because the costs of reconstruction are gonna be greater than the profits that will be made. Well, maybe that's true, maybe it isn't, but it's totally irrelevant. And the reason is because the costs of reconstruction are gonna be paid by the taxpayer, by you, and the profits are gonna go right into the pockets of the energy corporations. So yeah, it doesn't matter how they balance out, it's just another taxpayer subsidy to the rich."

• Source: KGNU benefit at the University of Colorado at Boulder, April 5, 2003

anyway, so i was sort of wrong about us being in iraq for the oil since it's not exactly like we could just seize them and anyway the price of oil has gone up. but at the same time, our insistence in a pro america "democratic free" government will "inadvertently" let the US have control over who Iraq is going to sell the oil to. in the meantime, defense contractors and everyone on the payroll of the military are happy; well, except for soldiers and their families. but they do get to be heroes.