Feb 21 2012
Noam Chomsky – Crisis and Hope, Theirs and Ours
A sudden increase in gas prices across the nation, and particularly in California, has threatened to derail the minuscule advances in economic recovery. The LA Times reported yesterday that gas prices are “up 5% in just the last week and nearly 9% higher than a month ago.” The effects of higher gas prices on the Presidential election have already become a topic of discussion in the media and Republican candidates for the nation’s highest office have already started blaming President Obama for the uptick.
The global economic recovery is also seemingly slowing, undermining overly optimistic projections by economists only a few months ago. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced today that its 34 member nations saw slower economic growth – only 0.1% this past quarter, compared to 0.6% in the earlier quarter.
Today, we turn to a familiar voice in the progressive community commenting on the broad political and historical context of our current economic climate: Noam Chomsky, MIT professor of Linguistics and a critic of American domestic and foreign policy. His wide-ranging criticisms have made him an enemy of the powerful, and a beloved intellectual for generations of progressives. He has written over 100 books, and is one of the most cited living sources in the world.
Currently in his eighties, he continues to travel extensively, lecture widely, and write prolifically. Noam Chomsky spoke just a few weeks ago at the University of Maryland at an event that was filmed and whose recording was generously made available to KPFK by the Real News Network.
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