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with Noam Chomsky
breakingtheset on May 21, 2013
On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin talks to Dr. Noam Chomsky, philosopher, linguist, professor, political critic, and author of over 100 books, about the Boston bombings, US terror inflicted abroad, drones, Obama’s rebranding of Bush administration policies, the National Defense Authorization Act & Holder v. Humanitarian Law, conventional wisdom, the evolution of media propaganda, and education as a form of elite indoctrination.
see
Noam Chomsky: Drones Are Murder Without Trial + We Live In A Plutocracy
Rise Up or Die! by Chris Hedges
“Astoundingly Disturbing”: Obama Administration Claims Power to Wage Endless War Across the Globe
Cornel West: Obama is a War Criminal + Julian Assange: What Makes Us Civil is Education
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The Netherlands Invasion Act! woah…
This is an excellent interview, adeptly conducted. The corporate US is without doubt a global outlaw of unprecedented precocity.
It requires a particularly perverse legal psychology to advocate blatant illegality as just, honorable and entirely legitimate, all the while professing devotion to the rule of law as you methodically undermine it.
What then must we do? The spectral ambition of these insane buffoons conjures disturbing allusions to the sorcerer’s apprentice in Fantasia…
Professor Chomsky is right about our history, but something has changed in the way people regard themselves. We are evolving, or at least mutating. We can change the rules.
Isn’t that absolutely incredible!
More info: http://www.democracynow.org/2002/8/6/hague_invasion_act_bush_signs_a
A fascinating snippet of independent broadcast history, thank you Lo. truly remarkable.
I just acquired a copy of Lewis Lapham’s “Pretensions to Empire ~ Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration (A Case for Impeachment) ” published in 2006.
These pretenders are so secure in the bosom of Big Mama Privilege, it is hard to imagine what can shake their confidence. As Chris Hedges makes clear in that other recent post, they know what’s coming, so it’s just all about progressive lock down.
I’m only wondering quite how the rest of the world is proposing to respond to this lawless Imperium. Are we missing something? Do our governments just expect us to kowtow obediently and lick the jackboot?
There is some hope. The BRIC(S) nations for one; the OAS for another. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_American_States
There are nations trading with Iran right now even with the sanctions put on by the US.
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The entire world should protest and force this guy to return the Nobel prize and the money. Didn’t deserve it then, deserves it now even less.
I do wish Obama would listen to Noam Chomsky!