US
linguist, philosopher and political activist, Noam Chomsky | Photo: AFP
According
to Chomsky, the United States is being thrown out of the western hemisphere as
a result of its policies.
Noam
Chomsky, a historian, linguist and a prominent commentator on political affairs
in the United States and the world, lashed Friday against media organizations
in the U.S., describing them as mouthpieces for the government and their
allies. To U.S. leaders, he explained in an interview with Russia Today, any
news outlet that “does not repeat the U.S. propaganda system is intolerable,”
he said.
Chomsky
argued in the interview that the U.S. doctrine defined the international
community and the “West.” He touched on the current nuclear talks taking place
between Iran and the world powers regarding Iran's nuclear program and argued
that the standard line on that program is defined according to the interests of
the U.S. and its allies, the well-being of the world notwithstanding.
“The
West means the United States and everyone else that goes along,” he said.
“What’s called the international community in the United States is the United
States and anyone who happens to be going along with it. Take, say, for
example, the question of Iran’s right to carry out its current nuclear
policies, whatever they are. The standard line is that the international
community objects to this. Who is the international community? What the United
States determines it to be.”
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The
social philosopher and MIT professor, seen as one of the most important
academics of the 20th century, also said that President Obama’s administration
did not change its policy on Cuba for the right reasons or to advance freedom.
He argued that Obama and the U.S. leaders realized that they are being pushed
out of the western hemisphere because of the country's long imperialist
policies there, which countries in South America could no longer accept.
“The
facts are very clear,” he said. “We know what happened. The Kennedy
administration launched a very serious terrorist war against Cuba. It was one
of the factors that led to the missile crisis. It was a war that was planned to
lead to an invasion in October 1962, which Cuba and Russia presumably knew
about. It’s now assumed by scholarship that that’s one of the reasons for the
placement of the missiles. That war went on for years. No mention of it is
permissible [in the U.S.]. The only thing you can mention is that there were
some attempts to assassinate [Fidel] Castro. And those can be written off as
ridiculous CIA shenanigans. But the terrorist war itself was very serious.”
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