Noam Chomsky Interview, 18th December.
Radio Netherlands has an extensive interview with Noam Chomsky (transcript and streaming audio are available) dated the 18th December.
In it Chomsky touches on various topics including the elections which have just been held in Iraq. I was particularily interested in Chomsky's response to the question: 'In your opinion, what is the US's next likely international move?' Chomsky discussed the political situation in South America at the moment as being of acute interest to The White House. Since he gave this interview Evo Morales has claimed victory in Bolivia's election. Evo Morales' victory ticks pretty much all the boxes for making Condi Rice's breakfast reading uncomfortable this morning. I can't wait to see what the response is from Washington on this one.
Incidentally, in the Chomsky interview I linked to above, one question is put to him from an Irish listener named "Mark Humphreys" in the transcript. Mark contributed to the interview thus:
"The 'anti-war' movement destroyed Vietnam, and far from being ashamed of it, they are proud of it, and they want to do the same thing to Iraq. They want to abandon Iraq to the Jihadis and the Baathists and civil war. All they care about is that no white people are involved."
I'd like to think there isn't more than one Mark Humphrys in Ireland with views as imperialist and arrogant as that, thus I'm hoping the Irish contributor in question was a former lecturer of mine from DCU who has quite a substantial sideline in neoconservative political musings.
Published by Paul.
In it Chomsky touches on various topics including the elections which have just been held in Iraq. I was particularily interested in Chomsky's response to the question: 'In your opinion, what is the US's next likely international move?' Chomsky discussed the political situation in South America at the moment as being of acute interest to The White House. Since he gave this interview Evo Morales has claimed victory in Bolivia's election. Evo Morales' victory ticks pretty much all the boxes for making Condi Rice's breakfast reading uncomfortable this morning. I can't wait to see what the response is from Washington on this one.
Incidentally, in the Chomsky interview I linked to above, one question is put to him from an Irish listener named "Mark Humphreys" in the transcript. Mark contributed to the interview thus:
"The 'anti-war' movement destroyed Vietnam, and far from being ashamed of it, they are proud of it, and they want to do the same thing to Iraq. They want to abandon Iraq to the Jihadis and the Baathists and civil war. All they care about is that no white people are involved."
I'd like to think there isn't more than one Mark Humphrys in Ireland with views as imperialist and arrogant as that, thus I'm hoping the Irish contributor in question was a former lecturer of mine from DCU who has quite a substantial sideline in neoconservative political musings.
Published by Paul.
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