Paid Subscriber Exclusive*: Current affairs...with Noam Chomsky
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Every month or so, I plan to have a dialogue on current affairs with a colleague chosen from a spectrum of public intellectuals across the political spectrum, which I will make available to paid subscribers. This first edition is being made available to everyone.
I am very pleased to inaugurate this new series with an important dialogue with Noam Chomsky. Â Our conversation, recorded earlier this week, focused on the situation in Ukraine, and also the current Supreme Court appointment.
As always, it was a delight to talk with Noam. His take on the situation in Ukraine is, not surprisingly, a far cry from what is being said on current US media. But it needs to be heard. And his warnings about the dangers ahead are worth heeding. Whether or not you agree with him, the sources he cites are impressive, and the issues he addresses are cause for serious reflection.
Thank you for this interview. I enjoyed the different perspectives Dr. Krauss
You can always rely on Noam to find a way to blame America. Has it occurred to him that a) Ukraine is not a puppet of the United States, but is fighting back because they don't want to be a Russian satellite?; b) NATO expanded not because of some sinister American plot, but because the Eastern Europeans were afraid of Russia's lust for expansionism?; c) That war criminal Putin isn't actually afraid of NATO (or any other so-called "provocation"), but is invading because he wants to and thought he could get away with it because of Western weakness after Afghanistan? It's been almost 50 years since he endorsed Castro, 45 years since he endorsed Pol Pot and 15 years since he endorsed Hezbollah, and why anyone still takes his foreign policy analysis seriously is beyond me.