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bsmall2 Apr 18, 2025

> You "have organized your lives around inhuman values," he said. These values
> are inhuman because they cannot be universalized. The system rests on a few using the majority of the resources, while the majority can't even cover their basic necessities. It is crucial to define a system of values and a norm of living that takes into account every human being.

https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/htdocs/chomsky/dd/dd-c07-s14.html#FN69

#IgnacioEllacuria #NoamChomsky on #DeterringDemocracy in #ElSalvador #uspol

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bs2 Feb 27, 2025

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> ^[See]..work on these topics by #AlexCarey, in his Taking the Risk out of Democracy..1995, and.. #ElizabethFonesWolf, #SellingFreeEnterprise: the Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-1960.. Stuart Ewen, PR!: A Social History of Spin.. 1996..[for].. context, see.. Intellectuals and the State and #ForceAndOpinion, reprinted in #DeterringDemocracy..1991

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bsmall2 Jan 7, 2025

> Studies by the US Labor Department and others predict serious shortages of skilled labor (everything from scientists and managers to technicians and typists) as the educational system deteriorates, part of the collapse of infrastructure accelerated by #Reaganite social and economic policies. The tendency may be mitigated by modification of immigration laws to encourage a brain drain, but that is not likely to prove adequate.
#NoamChomsky in #DeterringDemocracy for #H1Bvisa context #uspol

Brian Small Jan 17, 2024

.> ^n27 ... WSJ, Jan. 19, 1989; Johnson, Sunday Telegraph, June 1, 1986. Johnson and Podhoretz are exulting over Libya and Grenada, respectively. A notorious apologist for terrorism and atrocities, Johnson also applauded #Israel for "having the moral and physical courage to violate a so-called sovereign frontier" by invading Lebanon in 1982 to excise "the terrorist cancer" -- with an estimated 20,000 or more killed, mostly Lebanese and #PalestinianCivilians (quoted by #WolfBlitzer, #JerusalemPost, June 29, 1984). In the real world, the invasion had nothing whatsoever to do with "the #TerroristCancer," except insofar as Israel hoped that the attack might return the PLO to the #TerroristPolicies Israel preferred by undermining its self-restraint in the face of repeated and murderous Israeli cross-border attacks, and terminating #PLOEfforts to move towards a peaceful political settlement, intolerable to both major Israeli political coalitions. There was ample evidence on these matters from Israeli sources at the time Johnson produced these typically inane comments. See #FatefulTriangle, Pirates & Emperors, and #NecessaryIllusions.....> The greatest accomplishment of Reagan is supposed to be that he made us "feel good about ourselves," restoring the faith in authority, which had sadly flagged. As the editors of the Wall Street Journal put it, "he restored the efficiency and morale of the armed services [and] demonstrated the will to use force in Grenada and Libya" -- two military fiascos, but no matter. We were able to kill a sufficient number of people and are once again "standing tall," towering over the upstarts who had sought to overcome us but who succumbed to the cool courage and "the strength of the Cowboy" -- the words of British journalist Paul Johnson, while swooning over the manliness of his idol Ronald Reagan, who had in reality shown the courage of a Mafia don who sends a goon squad to break the bones of children in a Kindergarten. With these achievements, Reagan overcame our "sickly inhibitions against the use of military force," Norman Podhoretz intoned. ^n27 - https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/htdocs/chomsky/dd/dd-contents.html
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#NoamChomsky in #DeterringDemocracy on #PaulJohnson #NormanPodhoretz in #WSJ #WallStreetJournal #PiratesAndEmperors

Deterring Democracy: Contents

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bs2 Nov 15, 2023

> Israel is at the forefront of the booming spyware industry that threatens human rights, press freedom and democracy worldwide.
#AnthonyLowenstein
I think #Chomsky's #DeterringDemocracy mentions the #IsraeliMilitary cooperation with murderous USA foreign policy in LatinAmerica ...

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bs2 Mar 3, 2023

> #MartinBaró.. [and] the "massive campaign of #PoliticalTerrorism" in #ElSalvador.. with U.S. backing and initiative.. "since 1984, with the coming of.. democratic government in.. under #Duarte.. things did not change.. the terrorized population..[had] two options.. go to the mountains and join.. the rebels, or to comply.." The killings then reduced in scale.. "there was less need.. people were so terrorized, so paralyzed."
- https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/htdocs/chomsky/dd/dd-c12-s14.html
#NoamChomsky #DeterringDemocracy

Deterring Democracy: Chapter 12 [14/20]

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bs2 Sep 15, 2022

#NoamChomsky's #DeterringDemocracy showed me #TomNairn with The #EnchantedGlass for the #British #Monarchy. Context:
> .. while the substance of democracy was successfully reduced during the #Reagan era.. the public remained substantially out of control, raising serious problems for the exercise of power.
The #ReaganAdministration faced these problems with a dual strategy... the most elaborate #Agitprop apparatus in #AmericanHistory, its #OfficeOfPublicDiplomacy..
https://zcomm.org/deterring-democracy

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bs2 Sep 6, 2022

I'll have to remember #LeighBinford's name now. Ever since reading #NoamChomksy's book #DeterringDemocracy in the early 90s I've been trying to remember #ElMozote in #ElSalvador. A quick search got me to a worthwhile book-review of _El Mozote Massacre: Human Rights and Global Implications_ I know some really sweet people from #Morazan, #Morazán.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-american-studies/article/abs/leigh-binford-the-el-mozote-massacre-human-rights-and-global-implications-tucson-az-the-university-of-arizona-press-2016-pp-xxii-377-3495-pb/923EE03B0A8EFE2F167DD0E92C04385B

Leigh Binford, The El Mozote Massacre: Human Rights and Global Implications (Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2016), pp. xxii + 377, $34.95, pb | Journal of Latin American Studies | Cambridge Core

Leigh Binford, The El Mozote Massacre: Human Rights and Global Implications (Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2016), pp. xxii + 377, $34.95, pb - Volume 50 Issue 3

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