{"id":3933,"date":"2006-12-19T19:08:24","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T03:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2006-12-19T20:46:36","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T04:46:36","slug":"video-noam-chomsky-on-us-effort-to-spread-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3933","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211; Noam Chomsky On US Effort To Spread Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest Blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpotatomash.com\">Alan Breslauer<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<object width=\"240\" height=\"198\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rimLCBsXf0k\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rimLCBsXf0k\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"3\" borders=\"3\" align=\"right\"><\/embed><\/object>This clip is from a Noam Chomsky speech given over the weekend titled, &#8220;What&#8217;s Next? Creating Another World in a Time of War, Empire and Devastation,&#8221; which aired today on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/12\/19\/1433244\">Democracy Now!<\/a>  In this excerpt (3:45), Chomsky uses the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usip.org\/isg\/iraq_study_group_report\/report\/1206\/index.html\">Baker\/Hamilton Report<\/a> as the starting point for his critique of US foreign policy.  He questions the selective use of polling data in the Report which fails to mention that the vast majority of both Iraqis and Americans desire an immediate pullout of US troops or a definitive time-line for withdrawal.  It&#8217;s all a bit strange to Chomsky, who states, &#8220;In our mission to bring democracy to the world we don&#8217;t care about the opinions of people &#8212; they&#8217;re kinda irrelevant.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer This clip is from a Noam Chomsky speech given over the weekend titled, &#8220;What&#8217;s Next? Creating Another World in a Time of War, Empire and Devastation,&#8221; which aired today on Democracy Now! In this excerpt (3:45), Chomsky uses the recent Baker\/Hamilton Report as the starting point for his critique of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}