{"id":5499,"date":"2014-11-04T20:05:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T03:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=5499"},"modified":"2014-11-04T20:06:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T03:06:27","slug":"noam-chomsky-calls-us-worlds-leading-terrorist-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=5499","title":{"rendered":"Noam Chomsky calls US ‘world’s leading terrorist state’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky (Reuters\/Jorge Dan)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The United States is the \u201cworld’s leading terrorist state,\u201d based on its deadly, CIA-run operations in the likes of Nicaragua and Cuba, according to new op-ed by historian and social philosopher Noam Chomsky.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In a new piece<\/a> posted at Truthout.org, Chomsky pointed to the Central Intelligence Agency\u2019s classified review of its own efforts to arm insurgencies across the globe in its 67-year history. As RT previously reported<\/a>, the CIA conducted the effectiveness analyses while the Obama administration contemplated arming rebels fighting against President Bashar Assad\u2019s forces in Syria.<\/p>\n

The New York Times was the first to uncover the story and Chomsky opened by suggesting the Times\u2019 own headline for it should have been titled, “It’s official: The U.S. is the world’s leading terrorist state, and proud of it,\u201d<\/em> rather than “CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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A rebel fighter from the Free Syrian Army holds a position with a Belgium made FAL rifle at a front line in the Salah al-Din neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo (AFP Photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The longtime MIT professor went on to detail some of the instances assessed in the CIA\u2019s review and why they amount to an American regime – \u201cthe world champion in generating terror\u201d<\/em> – bent on antagonizing its opposition around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first paragraph of the Times article cites three major examples of \u2018covert aid\u2019: Angola, Nicaragua and Cuba. In fact, each case was a major terrorist operation conducted by the US,\u201d<\/em> Chomsky wrote.<\/p>\n

He added that it was the US, in the 1980s, that supported Apartheid-era South Africa as it invaded Angola to protect itself \u201cfrom one of the world’s \u2018more notorious terrorist groups,\u201d<\/em> according to Washington: \u201cNelson Mandela’s African National Congress.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWashington joined South Africa in providing crucial support for Jonas Savimbi’s terrorist Unita army in Angola,\u201d<\/em> wrote Chomsky.<\/p>\n

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Unita army (AFP Photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThe consequences were horrendous. A 1989 U.N. inquiry estimated that South African depredations led to 1.5 million deaths in neighboring countries, let alone what was happening within South Africa itself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Chomsky also mentioned the decades-long \u201cmurderous and destructive campaign\u201d<\/em> the US aimed at Cuba, including the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and a harsh embargo that continues to this day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe toll of the long terrorist war was amplified by a crushing embargo, which continues even today in defiance of the world. On Oct. 28, the UN, for the 23rd time, endorsed \u2018the necessity of ending the economic, commercial, financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba,\u2019\u201d<\/em> he wrote.<\/p>\n

Chomsky mentioned the dirty wars the US brought to opposition in Central America in the 1980s and current airstrikes in Syria and Iraq aimed at Islamic State, a jihadist group, like others, compiled and strengthened through American interventions in the Middle East, namely the recent Iraq war, he wrote.<\/p>\n

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He ended with a note on President Barack Obama\u2019s unmanned drone regime patrolling the skies in the likes of Pakistan and Yemen.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo this we may add the world’s greatest terrorist campaign: Obama’s global project of assassination of \u2018terrorists.\u2019 The \u2018resentment-generating impact\u2019 of those drone and special-forces strikes should be too well known to require further comment,\u201d<\/em> he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a record to be contemplated with some awe.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky (Reuters\/Jorge Dan) The United States is the \u201cworld’s leading terrorist state,\u201d based on its deadly, CIA-run operations in the likes of Nicaragua and Cuba, according to new op-ed by historian and social philosopher Noam Chomsky. In a new piece posted at Truthout.org, Chomsky pointed to the Central Intelligence Agency\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[104,102],"tags":[246,493,188,523,1021,329,185,372,526,159,221,460,1221,707,413],"class_list":["post-5499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","tag-arms","tag-central-america","tag-cia","tag-clashes","tag-cuba","tag-history-2","tag-human-rights","tag-obama","tag-opposition","tag-security","tag-terrorism","tag-un","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/chom-1.si_.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2SfUR-1qH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5502,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions\/5502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}