Chomsky condemns U.S. world domination strategy
• On the basis that an oft-repeated lie becomes a truth, Washington unleashed its aggression on and occupation of Iraq • President Fidel Castro attends the U.S. philosopher’s lecture

BY JOAQUIN RIVERY TUR AND ALDO MADRUGA —Granma daily staff writers—

NOAM Chomsky, the distinguished U.S. political scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Technological Institute, exposed the reactionary policy of George W. Bush’s government during a master conference entitled "Dilemmas of domination" at the 25th Assembly of the Latin American Social Science Council (CLACSO).

Chomsky, in the presence of President Fidel Castro, made reference to the U.S. government’s manipulation of the population so as to be able to unleash the aggression on and subsequent occupation of Iraq, on the basis that an oft-repeated lie becomes a truth.

The eminent U.S. academic highlighted all the steps taken by Washington to achieve its unipolar domination of the planet, not just by adopting so-called preemptive aggressions arbitrarily directed anywhere within the Third World, but also with connected actions such as abandoning principles related to a peaceful cosmic space, rejecting a treaty to ban biological weapons, failing to sign the Kyoto Protocol and other endeavors of that nature.

The national security strategy adopted by Bush has sent a shudder throughout the world, he said, and articles have been published in respected newspapers discussing the danger the world is facing in terms of weapons of mass destruction.

The academic commented that there were warnings prior to the war in Iraq that it would lead to an increase of terrorism, as the weak could resort to using WMDs and violence, but the United States took no notice.