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Speaking of the networks and webs of influence, Ferguson proclaimed: "There are legions of conspirators or say the torchbearers of the New World Order in corporations, universities, hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories, in doctors' offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils and the White House staff, in state organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country (U.S.) [including] at the cabinet level of the United States Government."
Among many critics of American foreign policy and New World Order, Noam Chomsky is one of America's most prominent political dissidents. A renowned professor of linguistics at MIT, he has authored over 30 political books dissecting such issues as U.S. interventionism in the developing world, international terrorism, the political economy of human rights, the propaganda role of corporate media and New World Order. The main reason for his concern with U.S. foreign policy is that he finds it horrifying and aspires to mitigate some of its most dangerous and destructive aspects by means of speaking, writing, demonstrating, resisting, etc. He puts a simple question: "Whose World Order?" for he finds basic conflicts which persist about fundamental values. They are about freedom, justice, human dignity and human rights in a world of great inequality and great concentration of power. He finds in the doctrines of neo-liberalism or economic rationalism or free market doctrine a good deal of deceit, hypocrisy and possibly outright fraud. He thinks that “These days it's international terrorism, or the clash of civilization; tomorrow it will be something new, but it's basically the same ones all the time.”
Commenting on the first President Bush, A Vatican journal, Il Sabato, writes that "George Bush is the surly master of the world. He had a very concrete possibility of a just peace and he chose war. Bush doesn't give a damn about the numerous peace deals issued by Pope John the Second, the proposal of Gorbachev, others. He repeatedly re-imposed new conditions on Iraq to justify the war and the humiliation which were always his unchanging objectives." The fact that George Bush is the surly master of the world and that what lies ahead of us is the rule of force, not peace and justice can be elucidated by the following account of Noam Chomsky:
"When a President comes into office he asks right away from the CIA and the Pentagon for a review of world affairs and a National Security Review and we usually don't learn about it for thirty years or so unless someone like Daniel Ellsberg comes around and expedites the process and this time apparently the Administration is proud of one section of it and they leaked it. This section has to do with what are called "Third World Threats to the United States." And here's what it says; it says in the case of conflicts with much weaker enemies it is not enough merely to defeat them, we must defeat them rapidly and decisively. Anything else will be too embarrassing to us and will undercut political support. Now those are the words of the surly master of the world, and they're interesting words."
The United States repeatedly defeats Security Council resolutions calling for diplomatic settlement. It has voted along with Israel in the General Assembly to block the settlement virtually supported by the entire world. The U.S. position has always opposed any form of political settlement that accepts the human rights and self-determination of the Palestinians, and that in any way interferes with Israel's right to maintain military advantages in the Occupied Territories. United States who has no sympathy, no concern at all for the Palestinians damns care for being alone in that position. The poor Palestinians are human dust, nothing to offer the United States as they have no military force and no wealth, they have no position in U.S. strategic planning.
For United States, even a much weaker enemy doesn't deserve negotiations but is to be forthwith pulverized. The purpose of this aggressive attitude is to teach some lessons and there are three targets of peculiar lessons.
First of all, "the lesson to the Third World is", in the words of Noam Chomsky: “don't raise your heads. We are the masters. You are the slaves. If you get out of line, you don't get just defeated, but you get totally destroyed.” Second message is to the rich countries of the world, and they are supposed to learn the lesson that the world is to be ruled by force. We'll do it for you, but you better pay us for it. And the third lesson is directed to the domestic population (which is invariably intimidated) and that is: (though) “Malnutrition has increased. Federal money for education has declined. The Federal debt has zoomed skyward. Real wages are continuing to decline and are now back to the level of about the late 1950s. The infrastructure is collapsing. But you have to beware of huge monsters, Grenada, Libya, international terrorism, Panama, now Iraq." In short, they are trained to respect the martial values.” At home the population has to be constantly in fear, has to be cowering in terror, in fear of terrible enemies. “The world has to be put on notice that the surly master will do what it wants. The intellectuals have the responsibility to conceal all of this in beguiling rhetoric.”
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