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Chomsky quoted from a memo written by anAmerican secretary of state in the lish a monopolyon power over the richest area of strategic andmaterial resources for leverage in world affairs,"said the author of Deterring Democracy...
...replenish the state's reservoirs, which now hold only about one-third the normal amount of water. The federal Bureau of Reclamation, California's largest water supplier, said it would halt deliveries to farms in the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys, threatening crops in two of the nation's richest agricultural areas...
Funding is a perennial problem for the U.N. as a whole and for its richest member in particular. For years the U.S., which bears one-fourth of the financial burden, was embroiled in disputes not only with the U.N. but also between its own Executive and Legislative branches over how much it owed and how far behind it was in paying its assessments; at one point, in 1989, the U.N. claimed that the U.S. debt totaled $365 million. The U.S. is now paying off its arrears, although not as fast as the U.N. would like...
Third, is Senator Byrd's raw spread-the-wealth philosophy completely illegitimate? The Federal Government and government-related private enterprises have made metropolitan Washington one of the richest areas of the country. By contrast, West Virginia is the second poorest state, after Mississippi. The entire country's taxes support the government. Why shouldn't more of the country get a piece of it? As private businesses are discovering, the electronic revolution is making it less and less necessary for work to be centralized at headquarters. There's no reason the government shouldn't take more advantage of this trend...
Disputes about how to divide the national inheritance will certainly go on for years. Yeltsin, master of the largest and richest state, has a clear edge in the bargaining, if territorial possession counts. The other Commonwealth members are so hostile to central government that they refused to designate a capital and created only an administrative hub in Minsk. By pointing out that Russia is just another state and Moscow just another city, Yeltsin can continue gathering up most of the pieces of the fallen giants, the Soviet Union and its Communist Party...