Noam Chomsky
Ed. Ponte alle Grazie
pp. 354
Who are the masters of the world?
The truth is there for all to see, so there is no need to ask this question, let alone look for the answer, someone might think. Yet the author of the book asked himself the question and tried to give an answer. Thus it turns out that perhaps things are not as we have always believed, or as they have always told us.
Each medal has two faces, a obverse and a reverse, and one can never say with certainty which is the obverse and the obverse.
Noam Chomsky is a US intellectual, of Jewish origin, considered the greatest exponent of linguistics in the world, professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), historian and political activist. His book begins with the question of who the intellectuals are and what their function is for moving on to other questions.
Who are the most dangerous terrorists in the world?
Why do Russia and China behave this way?
Is there democracy in America?
Still obvious questions.
Perhaps, but Chomsky's answers are not obvious!
His is a historical political analysis that reveals the real interests behind the high-sounding phrases and political programs of the superpower par excellence, the United States of America.
Let's take some examples. What do we know about Nelson Mandela, president of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1993? Why, for the US State Department, Mandela up until the 2008 was on the terrorist list?
What do we know about the September 11 terrorist attack? We know that the world has changed. On that occasion, President Bush declared war on terrorism. And yet the 11 September, of the 1973, this time in Latin America, "when the United States finally succeeded in overthrowing the Chilean democratic government of Salvador Allende thanks to a military coup that established the abominable regime of General Augusto Pinochet", has been completely forgotten ... although the crimes committed then, from the United States, are comparable if not more than those made the most famous 11 September 2001.
Why do the Palestinians continue to rage against the Israelis? How many war crimes have been committed, and by whom, in this endless war?
What unmentionable reasons have led the United States to isolate Cuba from the world? What frightened them to the point of identifying a danger to the United States of America in Cuba and its head of state? And why did the Soviets, in the 1962, try to install missiles right on the territory of Cuba, at a slingshot from the American border?
And again Vietnam, Laos, maneuvers in international waters along the Chinese coasts, Saddam Hussein, Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq, the war on Islamic fundamentalism and nationalism, the extension of NATO to the borders with the Russia, the war on drug trafficking ...
What must the United States of America prove over and over again? Perhaps they are the masters of the world? Chomsky's analysis seems to lead in that direction.
Of course, care must be taken. When we talk about the masters of the world we talk about those who hold the reins of power in America, a political class financed by the great economic powers, multinationals and finance.
The American people do not seem to be among the priorities of American politicians any more than the Italian people are for Italian politicians.
Who are the masters of the world. A great book, to read carefully and think about.
A book of denunciation against international crimes committed by the United States of America and Israel, written by an American of Jewish origin.
Straight and backhand, two sides of the same coin ... but which is the obverse and which the obverse is to be seen!
Alessandro Rugolo
