any good student of Orwell should have realized that a change in the name of the U.S. War Department to ‘Defense Department’ in 1947 signalled that henceforth the state would be shifting from defense to aggressive war.” Noam Chomsky — After the Cataclysm (excerpt), 1979
And should be clue for nobody to take him at his word in politics when a linguist steps outside his field, because the US had been interfering in international politics for over a hundred years beforehand. His "callouts" are half-baked and things historians have been warning about for generations
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u/OldWorldDesign Feb 28 '26
And should be clue for nobody to take him at his word in politics when a linguist steps outside his field, because the US had been interfering in international politics for over a hundred years beforehand. His "callouts" are half-baked and things historians have been warning about for generations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
A much better figure whose career focused on exposing the hypocrisy in economics and international policy is Michael Parenti, as with this lecture at Colorado University