[lbo-talk] Noam 1, Israelo-apartheid 0

[CGreen7223 at aol.com]

The Fateful Triangle was also my first Chomsky book. I read it about a  
month after I finished high school in 1997. It blew me away too. It was my 
first  exposure to left ideas, to anti-imperialism and I would gobble up more 
Chomsky  books in the coming year. I thought Chomsky was pretty much 
infallible for  years. His analysis is still vigorous but less so as he has gotten 
older. He  loves to cite polls to show that the American population is 
supposedly well to  the left of the Democratic Party. I think he reads too much 
into those polls.  And his analysis of the Tea Partiers, referring to them as a 
bunch of guys with  stagnating wages who are angry at bankers and who 
should be organized by the  left, has a few problems. And I wish he would give a 
more in-depth analysis of  the Latin American situation that just saying the 
region is breaking free of US  hegemony. He has apparently spent some time 
meeting with Lula in 01 or  02 and Corriea several years ago  so perhaps he 
dosen't want to  critique them too deeply and offend them. But he still 
comes up with a bunch of  interesting little tidbits from the media that make 
books that  are very  good if not as good as the chomsky canon of the 80's and 
90's