For many people, it is easier, safer and more comfortable to live in a world of delusion, particularly when this delusion requires no effort to seek out and understand truths that might prove unpalatable. If the delusion is one that is reinforced by the persistent promulgation of elite propaganda, then the idea of questioning the delusion might not even arise.
Since the publication of vast troves of official documents by Wikileaks, however, knowledge of deeper geopolitical realities has exited the select world of progressive academia, exemplified by scholars such as Noam Chomsky, with its enthusiastic but relatively limited audience in activist circles, to become more readily and widely available.
In the book ‘The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire’http://ift.tt/1yimQqw which has just been published, we are taken on a journey to understand just how the world works if we read the ‘top secret’ correspondence of those who regard themselves as our masters. Following a thoughtful contextual introduction by Julian Assange, our journey is guided by eighteen first-rate scholars who carefully explain the significance of a range of Wikileaks-released documents in relation to the region of the world in which they specialize.
Overall, the authors provide an extremely coherent account of the way in which the US empire functions. In essence, the unexamined and, hence, unquestioned assumption of the US imperial elite is that they are entitled to control the people and resources of the world for their own benefit and profit. One Wikileaks-released cable after another exposes this mindset at work whatever the national or regional context under consideration. For the full article click here
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