The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile

The “overall framework of power,” as Henry Kissinger calls it, consists of the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. The muscle that enforces the economic regime is the U.S. military. With a bloated budget of half a trillion dollars a year, the Pentagon’s warriors straddle the earth. The president announces that America is “the greatest force for good in history.” Somehow that view is not widely shared. The New York Times reports that Bush’s policies have “generated a tsunami of anti-Americanism.” In these critical times dissent is crucial. As Orwell, said, “If liberty means anything at all it’s the freedom to tell people what they don’t want to hear.” This program contains excerpts from Roy’s Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech and from her famous essay, “Do the Turkeys Love Thanksgiving?”