Obama gives UN speech in double-speak instead of English.
Incidentally, this was my impression of the speech, too.
Bush was just blunter about it when he announced, "You are either with us or against us." That's empire speaking.
Counterpunch
Orwell at the UN: Obama Re-Defines Democracy as a Country That Supports U.S. Policy
Michael Hudson
See also
Video and transcript
Democracy Now!
Noam Chomsky: The United States, Not Iran, Poses Greatest Threat to World Peace
Amy goodman interviews Noam Chomsky
3 comments:
"Bush was just blunter about it when he announced, "You are either with us or against us."
LOL Tom hard to argue against this...
BUT... if Russia and China are really starting to get involved and the same sorts of chaotic outcomes result, then Chomsky is a big hypocrite if he doesnt go all ape shit on them too...
The policy of Russia and China are multipolarism, and US policy is unipolarism.
"You wanna fight about it?"
Matt,
Chomsky's position is that you criticise your own country, which seems a perfectly respectable position. Anyway, he does criticise other countries, but his main focus is his own country, and I've yet to see anyone counter his criticisms intelligently. Given the depredations coming out of Washington, every American should be criticising domestic and foreign policy.
In my own country, the UK, we're so quick to criticise the EU, China, Russia or even the US but are almost incapable of criticising the UK's policies. Everybody's country is the Holy State. Beyond criticism. The nationalist disease is almost hardwired into our DNA: perfidious France, Germany, USA, Russia, China, etc. Noble UK! This is beyond comic, beyond tragic, it's even beyond the psychiatric.
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