Noam Chomsky on the Wikileaks dump

Noam Chomsky was on Democracy Now! this morning (It's about the only place on American TV that he can be seen). He discusses the ramifications of the latest Wikileaks dump. Very interesting stuff. Here he states something that the U.S. pointedly ignores:

"Latest polls show Arab opinion holds that the major threat in the region is Israel, that’s 80 percent; the second threat is the United States, that’s 77 percent. Iran is listed as a threat by 10 percent," Chomsky says. "This may not be reported in the newspapers, but it’s certainly familiar to the Israeli and U.S. governments and the ambassadors. What this reveals is the profound hatred for democracy on the part of our political leadership."

He mentions the democratic election of the Hamas in 2006 and the American/Israeli response as an example.

He also says that when American diplomats/administrators use the word "Arabs" they are referring to dictators (e.g., "Arabs believe that Iran is a major threat to the Middle East"), not the Arab public at large.

You can see a streaming of the interview here.

The point of all this is when the U.S. goes into a country in the name of "Democracy" (read: "invades") they are actually trying to prop up dictators (in order to exploit the country's resources) so that the U.S. does not have to rely on the whim of the people ("democracy") possibly kicking them out.

Bush's third term rolls along

The cover-up and "Let's look forward...not backward" meme goes on.

Let's face it, "folks," (One of Obama's favorite words) the third Bush term is alive and well, thriving in the Palace of Versailles...now called Washington, D.C.

Obama will never get it

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Last week):

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

House Minority Leader John Boehner (Last week):

This is not a time for compromise, and I can tell you that we will not compromise on our principles…We're going to do everything -- and I mean everything we can do -- to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can.

Michael Moore (Election night):

In the morning, President Obama is going to hold a press conference, and he’s going to take the wrong path. He’s going to say what we really need now is more bipartisanship and more kumbaya. And the other side wants none of that. And I don’t know—I don’t know how much you have to be battered and bruised to understand when the abuser is not going to stop abusing.

President Barack Obama (Day after election):

We must find common ground in order to make progress on some uncommonly difficult challenges...I do believe there is hope for civility. I do believe there is hope for progress and that's because I believe in the resiliency of a nation that has bounced back from much worse than what it is going through right now.

Obama had his chance when he had both houses in his pocket and he chose not to take advantage. Notice how he still doesn’t get it. He keeps believing in “hope” and “civility” when the Republicans are hell-bent on taking him down. Michael Moore is right on point. Pathetic.