Saturday, September 23, 2006

Chávez and Chomsky


The president of Venezuela broke diplomatic rules and advertised a book in front of the whole world. Noam Chomsky recently wrote a book, “Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance”. In this book professor Chomsky takes a critical look at the current unipolar state of the world political landscape. The American worldview is criticised from within, in the US there is a widespread assumption that this country cannot do harm, that it is a force for progress, but Chomsky thinks that in many cases US foreign policy only has served the purposes of an elite governing the United States of America. The members of this elite have their own agenda in Iraq, like they had it previuosly in Vietnam. That agenda is not the same, by a substantial amount, like the Vitnamese agenda then or the Iraqi agenda now.
Science allows us to make an objective worldview of reality, and Dr. Chomsky shows in this book that the statement that American Hegemony is good for the world, is not an objective statement; American Hegemony is good for the United States of America.

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