Noam Chomsky

Culture of Terrorism

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“Perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet” breaks down the Iran-Contra Affair and the scourge of clandestine terrorism (The New York Times Book Review on Theory and Practice).
 
This classic text provides a scathing critique of US political culture through a brilliant analysis of the Iran-Contra scandal. Chomsky irrefutably shows how the United States has opposed human rights and democratization to advance its economic interests.
“The Culture of Terrorism follows an earlier study, Turning the Tide, but with the new insights provided by the flawed Congressional inquiry into the Irangate scandal. [Chomsky’s] thesis is that United States elites are dedicated to the rule of force, and that their commitment to violence and lawlessness has to be masked by an ideological system which attempts to control and limit the domestic damage done when the mask occasionally slips. Clandestine programs are not a secret to their victims, as he points out. It is the domestic population in the USA which needs to be protected from knowledge of them . . . The record, he argues, shows a continual pattern of violence and disregard for democracy.” ―Manchester Guardian Weekly
“Chomsky’s documentation neatly supports his logic. Leftist adherents will applaud, while the majority—depicted as perpetrators or dupes of military-based state capitalism—will ignore the book or dismiss it as rhetoric. But Chomsky has a point of view not frequently encountered in the press.” —Library Journal
“Closely argued, heavily documented . . . will shake liberals and conservatives alike.” ―Publishers Weekly
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402 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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  • eugeneboquio92has quoted7 years ago
    sponsored farm cooperatives” has merit, because “In a Marxist society geared up for war, there are no clear lines separating officials, soldiers and civilians”—a justification that could be offered with ease by Abu Nidal.
  • eugeneboquio92has quoted7 years ago
    New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, a liberal dove by the standards of American discourse, writes that the State Department defense of “bloody contra attacks on government-
  • eugeneboquio92has quoted7 years ago
    tactical, and that in a terrorist cultural climate, nothing counts except the success of violence.

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