Noam Chomsky: "The U.S. and Its Allies Will Do Anything to Prevent Democracy in the Arab World"

[calybe]

AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to the 25th anniversary of FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the media watch group in New York, which just celebrated the 25 years of the reports they’ve come out, documenting media bias and censorship, and scrutinized media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints.

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[ladyanneboleyn]

I do think this is a taaaad bit fatalistic; for instance, I don't think the main voices in the administration urging intervention in Libya (i.e. Power & company) did so because they felt it was important to make Libya more pliable to U.S. interests, though I think that aspect certainly helped their argument and pushed the administration over the edge to intervention. But the basis of this analysis - that the West just completely ignores populations in order to achieve "stability" with pliable governments - is absolutely sound.

I'm hopeful that that can start to change with Arab populations finally asserting themselves, and Western policymakers will start to realize that true stability through self-determination is more beneficial to everyone in the long term than false stability that benefits the West but only makes violent eruptions of popular will inevitable. That's the lesson that the United States hasn't learned yet from all its adventures abroad, and it desperately needs to. (You can tell I'm not a realist. Hah.)

(I just wrote a final paper on this very topic, so I have a lot of ~feelings.)

[romp]

dun self-depreciate! I haven't written a final paper on this topic so I appreciate hearing about your ~feelings :)