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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, as we return to our discussion with world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky. Nermeen Shaikh and I recently spoke to him. He was at his home in Tucson, Arizona.
AMY GOODMAN: Noam, you have called the Republican Party the most dangerous organization in human history. You’ve also called the political leaders a gang of sadists. I was wondering if you could elaborate on this. But also, in all of your 93 years, have you ever seen such an anti-science, anti-fact trend in this country before? And then, if you can talk about how it links up with other such movements around the world and how it should be dealt with?
NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, it’s a fact that there has been a strain of anti-science sentiment in significant parts of the United States for a long time. This is the country that had […]
I remember Mr. Chomsky saying once that the U.S.A. were the actual worst terrorists in the world because we were always looking for a war somewhere; anywhere to get into, even more so than the Taliban or any other group, and I know he is right. We should have listened to Eisenhower when he warned us about the Military Industrial Complex getting too much power. Now they run the country.
Has anyone noticed how billionaires resemble cancer? Unchecked growth with the potential to kill the hoast. Tendrills that continue to feed themselves. Just a thought.