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From: Shiva Shankar <sshankar@cmi.ac.in>
Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:56 PM
Subject: Chomsky: Why the Mideast Turmoil Is a Direct Threat to the American Empire
To:
http://www.alternet.org/story/149786/chomsky:_why_the_mideast_turmoil_is_a_direct_threat_to_the_american_empire
"... What's the real concern is not Islam or radicalism; it's independence. If the radical Islamists are independent, well, they're an enemy. If secular nationalists are independent, they are an enemy. In Latin America, for decades, when the Catholic Church, elements of the Catholic Church, were becoming independent, the liberation theology movement, they were an enemy. We carried out a major war against the church. Independence is what's intolerable, and pretty much for the reasons that the National Security Council described in the case of the Arab world 50 years ago. ...
... There has been one free election in the Arab world, exactly one really free election namely, in Palestine, January 2006, carefully monitored, recognized to be free, fair, open and so on. And right after the election, within days, the United States and Israel announced publicly and implemented policies of harsh attack against the Palestinian people to punish them for running a free election. Why? The wrong people won. Elections are just fine, if they come out the way we want them to.
So, if in, say, Poland under Russian rule, popular movements were calling for freedom, we cheer. On the other hand, if popular movements in Central America are trying to get rid of brutal dictatorships, we send, we arm the military and carry out massive terrorist wars to crush it. We will cheer Vlav Havel in Czechoslovakia standing up against the enemy, and at the very same moment, elite forces, fresh from renewed training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, under command of the military, blow the brains out of six leading Latin American intellectuals, Jesuit priests, in El Salvador. That passes in silence. But those are the, that's exactly the pattern that we see replicated over and over again. ..."
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See also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7MfWmVRgKQ&feature=player_embedded
an extract from John Pilger's "The War You don't See"
From: Shiva Shankar <sshankar@cmi.ac.in>
Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:56 PM
Subject: Chomsky: Why the Mideast Turmoil Is a Direct Threat to the American Empire
To:
http://www.alternet.org/story/149786/chomsky:_why_the_mideast_turmoil_is_a_direct_threat_to_the_american_empire
"... What's the real concern is not Islam or radicalism; it's independence. If the radical Islamists are independent, well, they're an enemy. If secular nationalists are independent, they are an enemy. In Latin America, for decades, when the Catholic Church, elements of the Catholic Church, were becoming independent, the liberation theology movement, they were an enemy. We carried out a major war against the church. Independence is what's intolerable, and pretty much for the reasons that the National Security Council described in the case of the Arab world 50 years ago. ...
... There has been one free election in the Arab world, exactly one really free election namely, in Palestine, January 2006, carefully monitored, recognized to be free, fair, open and so on. And right after the election, within days, the United States and Israel announced publicly and implemented policies of harsh attack against the Palestinian people to punish them for running a free election. Why? The wrong people won. Elections are just fine, if they come out the way we want them to.
So, if in, say, Poland under Russian rule, popular movements were calling for freedom, we cheer. On the other hand, if popular movements in Central America are trying to get rid of brutal dictatorships, we send, we arm the military and carry out massive terrorist wars to crush it. We will cheer Vlav Havel in Czechoslovakia standing up against the enemy, and at the very same moment, elite forces, fresh from renewed training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, under command of the military, blow the brains out of six leading Latin American intellectuals, Jesuit priests, in El Salvador. That passes in silence. But those are the, that's exactly the pattern that we see replicated over and over again. ..."
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See also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7MfWmVRgKQ&feature=player_embedded
an extract from John Pilger's "The War You don't See"
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Palash Biswas
Pl Read:
http://nandigramunited-banga.blogspot.com/
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