Case Studies in Hypocrisy: U.S. Human Rights Policy (2000)

About this title: Noam Chomsky is internationally renowned for his valuable, alternate viewpoint to U.S. foreign policy. On this two-CD set, he shows that the United States' first priority abroad is the free flow of capital. Nothing must hinder corporate efforts to sell weapons and purchase oil -- not trade restrictions, environmental protections, and certainly not human rights. Chomsky shows how the U.S. repeatedly vetoes all efforts at creating international human-rights regulations. A UN-enabling convention on the rights of the child was rejected only by the U.S. and Somalia. But the most interesting part ... read more

Tracks:

1. The Old "New World Order"
2. Imf and Bretton Woods
3. The Rule of Finanace Capital
4. Where Capital Flows
5. Nixon and Regan
6. Fairy Tale Boom
7. The Saintly Alan Greenspan
8. After Nafta
9. Rogue State
10. Universal Rights
11. The Right of Return
12. Relativism Triumphant
13. Torture Chamber
14. Haitian Refugees
15. There's No Law
16. The Great Beast
17. Media Suppression
18. The Treat of Democracy
19. Socio-Political Rights
20. The Right to Eat
21. Properly Educated People
22. U.S. Prisons
23. Non-Self-Executing
24. Just Attack
25. Favorite Monster
26. A Hard Choice
27. Meeting in Mosul
28. The Real Threat
29. Kuwait and Panama
30. Chemical War
31. Stability
32. Religious Conversation
33. Good Terror
34. Weapons of Mass Destruction
35. Carthaginain Solution
36. It's the Oil
37. Saddam as Mother Teresa
38. Sending a Message
39. War Crimes
40. Get Lost

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.