[ebook] The New War Against Terror by Noam Chomsky

The Human Nature Review ISSN 1476-1084 URL of this document http://human-nature. com/nibbs/01/chomsky. html The New War Against Terror By Noam Chomsky October 18, 2001 - Transcribed from audio recorded at The Technology & Culture Forum at MIT The Talk... More

The Human Nature Review ISSN 1476-1084 URL of this document http://human-nature. com/nibbs/01/chomsky. html The New War Against Terror By Noam Chomsky October 18, 2001 - Transcribed from audio recorded at The Technology & Culture Forum at MIT The Talk (audio) Everyone knows it’s the TV people who run the world [crowd laugher]. I just got orders that I’m supposed to be here, not there. Well the last talk I gave at this forum was on a light pleasant topic. It was about how humans are an endangered species and given the nature of their institutions they are likely to destroy themselves in a fairly short time. So this time there is a little relief and we have a pleasant topic instead, the new war on terror. Unfortunately, the world keeps coming up with things that make it more and more horrible as we proceed. Assume Two Conditions for this Talk I’m going to assume two conditions for this talk. • The first one is just what I assume to be recognition of fact. That is that the events Less