Nothing Real (Noam Chomsky)

[Violet_Crumble]

22 February, 2005
Zmag

There are real US-Israel conflicts, but they are not being reported in the US (they are in Israel). An important one right now is the conflict over Israel’s efforts to sell advanced military technology to China (Harpy drones), to which the US is strongly objecting, as it has in the past, when Clinton compelled Israel in 2000 to cancel its transfer of Phalcon technology to China, after Israeli authorities had sworn that they would never back down because of its enormous significance to Israel’s highly militarized high-tech economy. This goes way back.


On the end of the Arafat era offering new hopes, that’s true in only one respect: US-Israel are hoping that a new leadership may be more willing to accept unchanged US-Israeli demands. I can only refer you to my posting on the commentary on Arafat’s death.

We need not waste time our Dear Leader’s “efforts to spread democracy,” etc. It’s normal, not only here, for the more obsequious commentators to worship at the shrine of the political leadership, who are always proclaiming noble visions. That’s why no serious analyst ever pays the slightest attention to declarations of virtuous intent by political leaders, which carry precisely zero information because they are completely predictable, including Hitler, Stalin, Japanese fascists, and virtually anyone else you can think of.

...The question always is: Where’s the evidence?

http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-chomsky220205.htm

[Jim Sagle]

1. Little Noamy One Note strikes again.

:boring:

[Coastie for Truth]

2. You leave out two other major conflicts

1. Israel is far ahead of the Evangelical Theocratic States of America (as per James Dobson, Pat Roberts, Jerry Falwell) in stem cell research and Congressional Rapture advocates Dave Weldon (who claims to me an MD) and Tom Coburn (who also claims to be an MD) and Mister Bill Frist (the cat vivisectionist who also claims to be an MD and who wants to run for President in 2008) have tried to block any application of these efforts in the Evangelical Theocratic States of America.

2. Many of the pharmaceuticals being "re-imported" from Canada to the US are manufactured by Israeli subsidiaries of US, German, and Swiss multi-national pharmaceutical companies, touch down at JFK airport, and go on to Toronto.

You got the convicts -- we got the Puritans- who is better off?