![]() ![]() The "one party, two faction" parliamentary system, Chomsky argues, can not throw up a radical reformer from the US Democrats (or the ALP) who can slay the capitalist dragon and turn the dross of life under the heel of business interests into the gold of Camelot. JFK was not the unbesmirched knight that many think. ![]() This is all delusion, argues Noam Chomsky in Rethinking Camelot. Kennedy - "the only shining star that ever crossed the political sky" as the New York Times recently put it, the lone hero struck down, assassinated, in November 1963 because he was planning to withdraw the US from Vietnam, pull the plug on the CIA, dismantle the military industrial complex and end the Cold War, and for his after-dinner party trick, introduce the millennium. Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture ![]()
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