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The State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival

Noam Chomsky

Text of lecture given at the The University of Toronto, April 7, 2011

(Transcript courtesy of Yvonne Bond)

I'm going to talk mostly about the United States, in part because I know it better, but also in part because it its unique significance in the global system.

That's been true dramatically since the Second World War. The character and extent of this uniqueness often isn't understood and would be easily worth a talk in itself, but I won't go into that.

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However, we constantly see that even in relatively small ways. So for example when the housing bubble in the United States burst a couple of years ago, that initiated a global economic crisis which most of the world is still mired in.

The worst outcomes were just averted by quite desperate measures.

In another domain, when France and Britain wanted to bomb Libya a couple of weeks ag