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Noam Chomsky, noted MIT linguist and spokesperson on international relations, speaks on the direction of United States foreign policy following the defeat of Iraq. He discusses the United Nations peace keeping role, the U.S. dominance of the United Nations, a peculiar U.S. view of international affairs, the role of force or peace in international justice, the weakness of the U.S.

Curtis Lang, journalist for the Village Voice, speaks about the present and future costs of the war with Iraq, 1990-1991. He points to the stated President Bush policy of cutting defense spending while there is a war going on, the monetary cost of waging war, that veteran benefits could cost %300 more than the actual war. He argues that the war will not effect the decline in the U.S.

Speech by Ramsey Clark, former Defense Secretary. He traces the evolving military philosophy of President Bush, from the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan up to the U.S. lead war against Iraq in 1991. In 1980 Bush began discussion of a winnable nuclear war, in which the U.S. could inflict greater damage than it would recieve.

Telephone interview with Noam Chomsky, MIT professorof linguistics and foreign policy specialist. He speaks about the upcoming war between the United States lead coalition and Iraq.

Talk at U.C. Berkeley about the relationships between United States foreign policy and the ideology of the political right. Parenti explores the pro-multinational character of U.S. elite, which seeks Third World countries to exploit through are distribution of wealth from the masses to the rich 2% of the population.