DN: Noam Chomsky on Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
Democracy Now
Friday, March 31st, 2006
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/31/148254(audio, video)
"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."