What Uncle Sam Really Wants: Real Story Series (Real Story)

by Noam Chomsky

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'Chomsky's work is neither theoretical, nor ideological: it is passionate and righteous. It has some of the qualities of Revelations, the Old Testament prophets and Blake' Ken Jowitt, TLS

A brilliant distillation of the real motivations behind U.S. foreign policy, compiled from talks and interviews completed between 1986 and 1991, with particular attention to Central America.

Quotes from Noam Chomsky:

* Contrary to what virtually everyone - left or right - says, the United States achieved its major objectives in Indochina. Vietnam was demolished. There's no danger that successful development there will provide a model for other nations in the region.

* At exactly the moment it invaded Panama... the Bush administration announced new high-technology sales to China [and] plans... to lift ban on loans to Iraq... Compared to Bush's buddies in Baghdad and Beijing, Noriega looked like Mother Teresa.

* Prospects are pretty dim for Eastern Europe. The West has a plan for it - they want to turn large parts of it into a new, easily exploitable part of the Third World.
  • ISBN13 9781878825018
  • Publish Date 20 October 2003
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 6 March 2015
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Pluto Press
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 112
  • Language English