Sep 11 2006
Barsamian Interviews Chomsky on 9/11 Theories
GUEST: Noam Chomsky, internationally renowned MIT professor, the leading critic of US foreign policy, author of scores of books; his latest are “Failed States” and the bestseller “Imperial Ambitions.” The New York Times calls him, “a global phenomenon, perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet.”
Five years ago today, planes slammed into the World Trade Center buildings in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC killing about 3000 people. According to Agence France-Presse, editorials in newspapers around the world united today in condemning the attacks and expressing revulsion for the Islamic extremists who carried out the atrocity, and agreed that the world had since become a more dangerous and uncertain place. The Bush administration wasted no time in using the tragedy of 9/11 to launch a so-called Global War on Terror first in Afghanistan in October 2001, and then in Iraq in March 2003. Much media criticism, especially in Europe and the Middle East, was reserved for Bush’s decision to invade Iraq under the banner of the “war on terror.” Lebanon’s Daily Star said, “Instead of isolating and wiping out Al-Qaeda, Bush has created a long list of new foes in his ever-broadening war on terror.” Egypt’s Al Ahram compared Bush to bin Laden. Iraq, meanwhile, ignored the anniversary altogether with not a single mention of it in the press.
Despite the glaring war crimes of the Bush administration in the post 9/11 world, many theories persist in the so-called “9/11 truth movement” that question bin Laden’s involvement in 9/11 and point the finger at Bush for orchestrating the tragedy. Today we’ll hear an excerpt of an interview with Professor Noam Chomsky conducted by Alternative Radio’s David Barsamian.
Find out about more Noam Chomsky interviews with David Barsamian at www.alternativeradio.org.
5 Responses to “Barsamian Interviews Chomsky on 9/11 Theories”
I heard the Chomsky opinion of 9/11.
I was shocked.
It doesn’t take an expert to see that the towers fell at the speed of gravity.
For this I love him for thisw I hate him.
9/11 was an inside job.
9/11 was a vast conspiracy.
Chomsky is a Left Gatekeeper, a disinfo agent, whose role is to keep the Left safely in lockstep behind the official stories of 9-11 and the Kennedy Assasination. Chomsky will go to his grave defending the official version of each, and deriding “conspiracy theorists”.
Come on Noam, “conspiracy theory” is the BIG LIE. Of course fascists resort to conspiracy to keep their power. How else? They are by definition the elitist minority. They can’t win our hearts and minds by being honest and forthcoming. “Hi, our little group of elitist fascists want to control the world, please support us!” Sorry, of course it’s a conspiracy!
First of all, the towers didn’t fall at the “speed of gravity.” Watch the videos and you will see debris falling faster than the towers. Secondly, Chomsky’s analysis is very good. He is not afraid to speak the truth about the power elite and he knows how they work. They are not, as the Truth Movement must have you believe, hyper-competent idiots who would hatch such an unlikely plot. Listen to what Chomsky says, he’s absolutely right. Stop wasting your time on conspiracy. The truth is enough. Why do you need more?