Edito de After NaftaThe US prides itself as the defender of democracy and beacon of human rights, and US foreign policy finds justification in promoting the universal values of freedom and equality. Noam Chomsky shows us how to peek behind the curtain to see what is really at work behind the human rights rhetoric. And he separates cleanly the real motives of the ongoing assault on Iraq from varioius high-minded explanations offered by politicians and the corporate media. "If you think it through, and it's not a very hard job, you learn an important lesson, one that ought to be taught in eighth grade civics and graduate departments of political science. It's a lesson that the powerful rarely express with such vulgar clarity: their total contempt for democracy, and their fear and hatred of the great beast, the public."?Noam Chomsky, from the CD