En artikel av författaren och samhällsdebatören Noam Chomsky.
En oförmåga att skydda sina medborgare. Tron att de har rätt att sätta sig över lagen och bristen på demokrati. Det är 3 saker som definierar en misslyckad stat. Och det, menar Chomsky, är exakt vad USA är på väg att bli. I ett exklusivt utdrag ur hans senaste omskakande bok förklarar en av Amerikas ledande tänkare hur hans land har kommit vilse.

"The selection of issues that should rank high on the agenda of concern for human welfare and rights is, naturally, a subjective matter. But there are a few choices that seem unavoidable, because they bear so directly on the prospects for decent survival. Among them are at least these three: nuclear war, environmental disaster, and the fact that the government of the world's leading power is acting in ways that increase the likelihood of these catastrophes. It is important to stress the government, because the population, not surprisingly, does not agree.

That brings up a fourth issue that should deeply concern Americans, and the world: the sharp divide between public opinion and public policy, one of the reasons for the fear, which cannot casually be put aside, that, as Gar Alperowitz puts it in America Beyond Capitalism, "the American 'system' as a whole is in real trouble - that it is heading in a direction that spells the end of its historic values [of] equality, liberty, and meaningful democracy"."

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article621899.ece