« Creating fear and hatred is, of course, a classic method of controlling populations, whether black, Jewish, homosexual, welfare champion or otherwise demonized. »
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Noam Chomsky
Intellectual responsibilities |
Noam Chomsky
Intellectual responsibilities
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« The main American concern was not Indochina but the "domino theory", that is, the demonstrative effect of independent initiatives, which could spread as a "rot" to Thailand - and perhaps even to Japan, which would be drawn into a "New Order" excluding the United States. They dismissed the threat by "demonstrating that a "war of liberation" can be costly, dangerous and doomed to fail," as General Maxwell Taylor, an adviser to President Kennedy, said in 1966. »
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Noam Chomsky
The fabric of public opinion. The economic policy of the American media |
Noam Chomsky
The fabric of public opinion. The economic policy of the American media
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« How does systematic media propaganda guarantee the dominance of the vast institutions of private tyranny of transnational high finance that govern the process of "globalization"? Constructed hierarchically, gradually escaping democratic control, these institutions were born according to Chomsky from the same soil as fascism or Bolshevism, these other contemporary manifestations of totalitarianism. The globalization of the economy marks a particular historical phase of their development aimed at increasing their power and maximizing their profits, and for the most part it bears no resemblance to what we are assured it means. Free trade, to a substantial extent, is neither free nor trade-related. the market of neo-liberalism has almost nothing to do with what classical liberalism called the market and is in fact a way for the public to subsidize private tyrannies: only the poor, workers are subject to market discipline while the state participates in the dismantling of Keynesian-inspired gains made after the Second World War. From this perspective of health, education and social protection are achievements to be dismantled and privatized to increase the profits of private tyrannies. The media propaganda is there to zombify the populations so that they consent "freely" to their own killing. »
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Noam Chomsky
Making consent: Media propaganda in democracy |
Noam Chomsky
Making consent: Media propaganda in democracy
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