Noam Chomsky on Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
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The New York Times calls him “arguably the most important intellectual alive.”
The Boston Globe calls him “America’s most useful citizen”
He was recently voted the world’s number one intellectual in a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines.
We’re talking about Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the foremost critics of U.S. foreign policy. Professor Chomsky has just released a new book titled “Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy.”
It examines how the United States is beginning to resemble a failed state that cannot protect its citizens from violence and has a government that regards itself as beyond the reach of domestic or international law.
In the book, Professor Noam Chomsky presents a series of solutions to help rescue the nation from turning into a failed state.
They include: Accept the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court and the World Court; Sign the Kyoto protocols on global warming; Let the United Nations take the lead in international crises; Rely on diplomatic and economic measures rather than military ones in confronting terror; and Sharply reduce military spending and sharply increase social spending.
In his first broadcast interview upon the publication of his book, Professor Noam Chomsky joins us today from Boston for the hour.
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