3. America's youth refusing to enlist in the military so long as the United States continues to use its military for purposes other than defense.
4. significant numbers of existing military personnel refusing to fight wars of aggression by following the example of Kevin Benderman and filing for conscientious objector status
5. the formation of a viable third political party (i.e. Populists, Socialists, or Labor) which represents the "unsubstantials" to counter the Democrats and Republicans (both mere vehicles for the wealthy and elite to maintain power)
6. increased unionization and enhanced cooperation amongst existing unions
7. massive numbers of Americans declining to engage in over-consumption
8. American consumers limiting their debt to necessities and expenses for their businesses if they are proprietors
9. wide-spread support of NGO's that support human rights and provide poverty relief
10. individual Americans making a conscious effort to educate themselves and to think critically
11. sweeping efforts to teach America's youth true American history and to use their critical thinking skills to question their failed state
12. wide-ranging grass roots efforts to maintain the alternative media on the Internet, Internet communities and the integrity of the Internet by limiting control by major corporations
13. individuals engaging in civil disobedience when it is sensible and necessary
Noam Chomsky, one of the preeminent scholars and moral philosophers of our time, has been largely ignored by the mainstream media, presumably because of his vehement dissent against US foreign and domestic policy.
Recently, he has also been demonized by a number of his fellow dissenters, scholars, and members of the reality-based community. Some criticize him for his unwillingness to validate the assertion that 9/11 was perpetrated by the US government. Others call him a Zionist who is soft on Israel. Some even believe that Chomsky is actually one the "substantial people" and uses his brilliant dissent to advocate non-violent change as a means of taming potentially violent revolutionaries. Still others label him a hypocrite because of the measure of wealth he has derived from over the course of his career.
Regardless of what one believes about Chomsky or his motives, Failed States is a brilliant dissection of the increasingly inhumane and authoritarian political structure of the United States. Chomsky advances a highly convincing argument that America is indeed a failed state whose de facto ruling elite are engaged in The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy. Like him or not, Chomsky's latest work exposes America's ruling for the world to see them as the ruthless narcissists they truly are.
4. significant numbers of existing military personnel refusing to fight wars of aggression by following the example of Kevin Benderman and filing for conscientious objector status
5. the formation of a viable third political party (i.e. Populists, Socialists, or Labor) which represents the "unsubstantials" to counter the Democrats and Republicans (both mere vehicles for the wealthy and elite to maintain power)
6. increased unionization and enhanced cooperation amongst existing unions
8. American consumers limiting their debt to necessities and expenses for their businesses if they are proprietors
9. wide-spread support of NGO's that support human rights and provide poverty relief
10. individual Americans making a conscious effort to educate themselves and to think critically
11. sweeping efforts to teach America's youth true American history and to use their critical thinking skills to question their failed state
12. wide-ranging grass roots efforts to maintain the alternative media on the Internet, Internet communities and the integrity of the Internet by limiting control by major corporations
13. individuals engaging in civil disobedience when it is sensible and necessary
Noam Chomsky, one of the preeminent scholars and moral philosophers of our time, has been largely ignored by the mainstream media, presumably because of his vehement dissent against US foreign and domestic policy.
Recently, he has also been demonized by a number of his fellow dissenters, scholars, and members of the reality-based community. Some criticize him for his unwillingness to validate the assertion that 9/11 was perpetrated by the US government. Others call him a Zionist who is soft on Israel. Some even believe that Chomsky is actually one the "substantial people" and uses his brilliant dissent to advocate non-violent change as a means of taming potentially violent revolutionaries. Still others label him a hypocrite because of the measure of wealth he has derived from over the course of his career.
Regardless of what one believes about Chomsky or his motives, Failed States is a brilliant dissection of the increasingly inhumane and authoritarian political structure of the United States. Chomsky advances a highly convincing argument that America is indeed a failed state whose de facto ruling elite are engaged in The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy. Like him or not, Chomsky's latest work exposes America's ruling for the world to see them as the ruthless narcissists they truly are.
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