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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

It seems that the book focus on foreign wars and interventions, but the lasting impact of western culture industry in the whole world is also important. I think it also takes a better life experience out from the ordinary american citizen. The western american citizen could be living a better life (more independent and self-aware), were it not by mass culture.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This article assumes the reader is American... Why?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Er its noam chomsky, an american.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hope it sparks debate and causes people to take seriously the central point of the book, namely the grave threat posed to the world by the U.S. effort to maintain global dominance. The facts laid out in the book are disturbing and in many ways terrifying, and my hope, one I know that Prof. Chomsky has long shared, is that the public will come to understand the danger that we are in and act collectively to radically democratize existing power structures.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Sometimes I wonder what the world would be without countries like the US, Russia and China.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

The countries don't matter... To change things the peasants would all need to work together to throw off the sociopaths/oligarchy... Dividing the world into countries is just one way they maintain their control

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some other country would be in their place. Sometimes I wonder what the world would be without countries.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Theories during the Cold War proposed Brazil would step in if the big ones MADded themselves.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Careful, we might just have the British Empire all over again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

And the UK too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago