Paxman interviews Chomsky
repost / Paxman / Chomsky | 24.05.2004 09:34 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Cambridge
A short interview with Noam Chomsky, including transcript and video stream (Realplayer, low bandwidth). Jeremy Paxman, conducting the interview, is obviously trying to do what he can to hit Chomsky with the "tough questions", in notable contrast to his extremely subservient interview with Tony Blair before the war started...personally, I'd appreciate it if Mr. Paxman would secure another interview with Mr. Blair and ask some real questions this time.
If George Bush were to be judged by the standards of the Nuremberg Tribunals, he'd be hanged. So too, mind you, would every single American President since the end of the second world war, including Jimmy Carter.
The suggestion comes from perhaps the most feted liberal intellectual in the world - the American linguist Noam Chomsky. His latest attack on the way his country behaves in the world is called Hegemony or Survival, America's Quest for Global Dominance.
Jeremy Paxman met him at the British Museum, where they talked in the Assyrian Galleries. He asked him whether he was suggesting there was nothing new in the so-called Bush Doctrine.
Full text at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3732345.stm
Video available at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40175000/rm/_40175639_chomski_interview_19may_vi.ram
The suggestion comes from perhaps the most feted liberal intellectual in the world - the American linguist Noam Chomsky. His latest attack on the way his country behaves in the world is called Hegemony or Survival, America's Quest for Global Dominance.
Jeremy Paxman met him at the British Museum, where they talked in the Assyrian Galleries. He asked him whether he was suggesting there was nothing new in the so-called Bush Doctrine.
Full text at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3732345.stm Video available at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40175000/rm/_40175639_chomski_interview_19may_vi.ram
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