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Notes Classics in Politics: Turning the Tide Noam Chomsky 438 Orwell’s problem,” in Knowledge of Language (Praeger, 1985). 93. Even this lunacy was solemnly reported by the media, which have yet to update the story with the information that the secret official US list of 14 “Libyan terrorists” was in fact a list of prominent members of the Lebanese Shiite party Amal, including its leader Nabih Bern and the religious leader of the Lebanese Shiite community, most of the rest being aging Lebanese politicians; to compound the absurdity, Amal is strongly anti-Libyan. The document was obtained by the New Statesman in London; Duncan Campbell and Patrick Forbes, NS, Aug. 16, 1985. They note that on Dec. 7, 1981, at the height of the furor, Reagan told the world press: “We have the evidence and he [Qaddafi] knows it.” Libyan denials were “laughed off, and were of no avail in killing the story.” 94. As noted, the shift, both in programs and rhetoric, began in the late Carter Administration. 95. Norman Podhoretz, NYT, Oct. 30, 1985. 96. LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions, 108, 110. 97. Lars Schoultz, Human Rights and United States Policy Towards Latin America (Princeton, 1981), 219; the Senate had opposed an earlier proposal to this effect in 1958. Charles Maechling, “The Murderous Mind of the Latin Military,” LAT, March 18, 1982. 98. Ruth Sivard, World Military and Social Expenditures 1981 (World Priorities, 1981, 8); Paul Quinn-Judge, Far Eastern Economic Review, Oct. 11, 1984. One consequence, he notes, as a “major political gap for the new regime,” since “the south was stripped of the trained, disciplined and presumably committed young cadres who would have formed the backbone of the present administration”—a propaganda victory much exploited in the West, since this contributed to a North Vietnamese takeover. 99. See chapter 2.2, above. 100. Hans Morgenthau, In Defense of the National Interest (Knopf, 1951), 80-1. 101. It is an achievement not quite matched in the USSR, with regard to its invasion of Afghanistan; see my “Notes on Orwell’s problem.”
Notes Classics in Politics: Turning the Tide Noam Chomsky 439 102. Alain Besançon, New Republic, Feb. 18, 1985; Besançon, until recently a hard-line Stalinist, has now undergone the stylish Paris conversion to fantasies about the “impotence” of the West before the Communist onslaught. “US official says N-war foes suffer ‘Protestant angst’,” BG- LAT, Nov. 26, 1981. The official was Pentagon fanatic Richard Perle. This was before the Catholic Bishops had spoken out strongly on the issue, after a bout of “Catholic angst.” Chapter 5 1. Thomas Ferguson, “Party Realignment and American Industrial 2. Structure,” Research in Political Economy, 6.1-82, 1983. Crozier et al., Crisis of Democracy; chapter 2, note 51, above. 3. Kolko, Main Currents, 25f. See this important study for background throughout. 4. Ferguson, “Party Realignment”; his emphasis. 5. Kolko, Main Currents, 30; Palmer in David Brion Davis, ed., The Fear of Conspiracy (Cornell, 1971). 6. Murray Levin, Political Hysteria in America (Basic Books, 1972). 7. On some of the means employed within the ideological system, see the essays, mostly written through the 70s, in TNCW also PEHR and Herman, Real Terror Network. Material sampled in earlier chapters provides additional illustrations. 8. Thomas Edsall, The New Politics of Inequality (Norton, 1984), 13, 55, 107f., 117f. Edsall is a political reporter for the Washington Post. 9. Heritage Foundation, Mandate for Leadership, 1980, cited by John Saloma, Ominous Politics (Hill & Wang, 1984), 16. Saloma was the first president of the liberal Republican Ripon society. Some indication of the intellectual level of latter-day “conservatism” is given by the material cited earlier from the Journal of Contemporary Studies, which considers itself “scholarly,” published by the right-wing Institute for Contemporary Studies, founded by Edwin Meese and others in 1972; Saloma, 12. 10. Bertram Gross, Friendly Fascism (South End, 1983). 11. Edsall, 142, 177, 152; chapter 4, generally.
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