Articles by Frederick F Clairmonte

Frederick F Clairmonte Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky, Verso, New York, 1991; pp 421.
NOAM CHOMSKY, a world authority on linguistic theory from MIT continues to be as freshly irrepressible as when he first soared to distinction in his uncompromising onslaughts against US imperialism in Asia, Latin America and Africa in the 60s, The epithet 'dissident' is inappropriate to describe this activist/thinker. A more precise designation would be that of a humanist, a non-conformist rebel whose academic and non-academic career has been consecrated to battle against the monstrous lie machines not only in the ex-command economies but above all in the very heartland of global imperial power, the US.

Frederick F Clairmonte Robert Maxwell's death has not only brought into question the future of his empire, but has focused attention on the problem which besets many other national and international conglomerates: The need for long-term financing at a time when global capitalism has moved into a cyclical downswing.

and the advocates of 'swadeshi' going abroad for even minor surgical operations and that too at the expense of the government. Recently a central minister said openly that he would advocate reservations in the appointment of doctors in hospitals but would get his own surgical operation performed by the most efficient surgeon. It is also not uncommon to find academics advocating reservations in public forums but refusing to make appointments on the basts of reservation in their own institution or department.

Given that the extent of concentration in services is far greater than in the concentration of goods with the third world continuing to be marginalised, it is not surprising that the handful of imperialist powers which dominate international trade in services are precisely those who are the prime advocates of services liberalisation in the GATT.

The Uruguay Round has been a laboratory for gauging not only the intricacies of the negotiating labyrinth, but also the sheer destructiveness of the economic war itself among the major protagonists: the US, the EC, Japan and the third world. Its collapse will see the escalation of powerful regional economic blocks once again.