Noam #Chomsky: #WikiLeaks Cables Reveal “Profound Hatred for Democracy on the Part of Our Political Leadership”
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Chomsky était l’un des premiers à lire et publier les Pentagon Papers.
“one of the major reasons for government secrecy is to protect the government from its own population”
“When they talk about Arabs, they mean the Arab dictators, not the population, which is overwhelmingly opposed to the conclusions that the analysts here — Clinton and the media — have drawn. There’s also a minor problem; that’s the major problem. The minor problem is that we don’t know from the cables what the Arab leaders think and say. We know what was selected from the range of what they say. So there is a filtering process. We don’t know how much it distorts the information. But there is no question that what is a radical distortion is — or, not even a distortion, a reflection — of the concern that the dictators are what matter. The population does not matter, even if it’s overwhelmingly opposed to U.S. policy.”