Chomsky on Concision in the US Media

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Noam Chomsky on al-Zarqawi

The following is excerpted from a recent interview with the legendary linguist, philosopher, and political activist Noam Chomsky:

"[al-Zarqawi] was certainly a leading gangster and I don't think there's many people outside of his village in Jordan that mourn him. He's had a horrible role that was basically created by the Iraq invasion, which [the United States] can't escape responsibility for. He had a loose connection with al-Qaeda, mostly symbolic, with each trying to exploit the other. But that whole system which we call al-Qaeda is not an organisation, it's a network of networks, a lot of loosely interconnected people. What the effects [of killing al-Zarqawi] will be in the massive terrorist apparatus that's been created by the Bush-Blair invasion, one can only guess. The invasion was an enormous stimulant for terrorism, as was anticipated."

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The third crucial sign of America's failure, he says, is that "there's a huge gap between public opinion and public policy. Both political parties are well to the right of the population on a host of major issues, and the elections that are run are carefully designed so that issues do not arise."


Read the full interview.

Noam Chomsky on Iraq

As always, Chomsky is a voice of reason in a sea of madness.

The acclaimed critic of U.S. foreign policy analyzes Bush's current political troubles, the war on Iraq, and what's really behind the global 'war on terror.'

Chomsky: 'There Is No War On Terror'

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