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Secrets, Lies and Democracy 
Noam Chomsky
 
Interviewed by David Barsamian
 
Copyright © 1994 by David Barsamian
 
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Another illusion-shattering, fact-filledmasterpiece from the man the
New YorkTimes
called "arguably the mostimportant intellectual alive." Here are afew, brief excerpts:
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In 1970, about 90% of international capital was used fortrade and long-term investment --more or less productive things --and 10% for speculation. By1990, those figures had reversed.
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Haiti, a starving island, isexporting food to the US -- about35 times as much under Clintonas under Bush.
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The US government spent moremoney per capita to get thepresidential candidate it favoredelected in Chile in 1964 than was spent by both candidates (Johnsonand Goldwater) in the 1964 election here in the United States.
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The gap between how much income is held by the richest and poorest20% has increased dramatically over the past 30 years -- about doublefor rich vs. poor countries and far more for rich vs. poor people.
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What the public wants is called "politically unrealistic." Translated intoEnglish, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.
 
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Secrets, Lies and Democracy 
Noam Chomsky
 
Copyright © 1994 by David Barsamian
 
Table of Contents
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Editor's note 
The US
1.Defective Democracy 2.Keeping the rich on welfare 3.Health care 4.Crime and punishment 5.Gun control 6.Becoming a Third World country 7.Labor 8.The CIA 9.The media 10.Sports 11.Religious fundamentalism 12.Don't tread on me 
The world
1.Toward greater inequality 2."Free trade" 3.Mexico (and South Central LA) 4.Haiti 4.Nicaragua 5.China 6.Russia 7.Dead children and debt service 
Historical background
1.How the Nazis won the war 2.Chile 3.Cambodia 4.World War II POWs 
Miscellaneous topics
1.Consumption vs. well-being 2.Cooperative enterprises 3.The coming eco-catastrophe 4.Nuclear power 5.The family 
What you can do
1.Organize 
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