ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at some of the evidence which Chomsky brings forward in support of his view of US foreign policy. It shows how the real state of affairs is concealed and distorted by the official line. The chapter focuses on those areas of the world which are under US control. It concerns in particular with the misleading idea that US foreign policy reflects the American people as a whole. The chapter begins with the claim that poverty was perhaps the number one problem in the world. It examines the official line, which presents the United States as generously trying to make the world a better place, and contrasted it with Chomsky's picture of US foreign policy as a ruthless and unprincipled defence of the fifth freedom, the freedom to rob and exploit. The chapter concentrates on the effects of US foreign policy in the Tree World'.
