On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
Noam Chomsky
Language: English
Pages: 140
ISBN: 1608464008
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The book consists of five lectures on U.S. international and security policy. The first two lectures examine the persistent and largely homogenous features of U.S. foreign policy, and overall framework of order. The third discusses Central America and its foreign policy pattern. The fourth looks at U.S. national security and the arms race. And the fifth examines U.S. domestic policy.
These five talks, conveyed directly to the people bearing the brunt of devastating U.S. foreign policy, make historic and exciting reading.
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million people into camps where they would be surrounded by barbed wire and the security forces would be able to go and pick out the dangerous people and kill them and the population would be controlled by force. Well, it did not work in Vietnam. The people who planned it complained that they were never able to weed out the guerrillas. The counterinsurgency experts of the Kennedy Administration— Roger Hilsman, for example—said that the peasants in the concentration camps could not have a “free
a rash of National Security States reminiscent in several respects of European fascism, sometimes employing the talents of Nazi war criminals such as Klaus Barbie who had been brought to Latin America by the U.S. after their service in postwar Europe, a reign of vast terror, high-technology torture, “disappearances” and death squads. The first major coup was in Brazil, backed and welcomed by the U.S. government, which hailed it as “the single most decisive victory of freedom in the mid-twentieth
weapons “to stop future subversion” is noteworthy, and departs from the norm (at least what is publicly expressed), though General Twining’s concept of “subversion” and “aggression” is quite standard. Recall that under the Orwellian principles of Western logic, it is a matter of definition, not of fact, that the United States is never the agent of subversion or aggression; hence by simple logic, enemies of the United States must be guilty of subversion and aggression in their own countries if
assumption of U.S. planners would be that as in the past, the Soviet Union would back away from a dangerous confrontation likely to lead to nuclear war. If they do, a blockade will have been instituted, and the hope would be that Nicaragua would soon be defenseless against attack while the population would be unable or unwilling to accept the inevitable privation and suffering resulting from an effective blockade. On Power and Ideology_text pages_3_Layout 1 4/23/15 3:47 PM Page 121 National
Vietnam. It must “contain” Nicaragua, as agreed across the political spectrum—meaning: it must defend our little region over here from the threat of a good example. The U.S. is undoubtedly concerned to “secure” its access to the resources, both human and material, of the Grand Area, and to ensure that rivals understand that they have at best “regional responsibilities” within the “overall framework of order” maintained by the United States. There is, then, a real concern over “internal