Alterman on Chomsky

[C. G. Estabrook]

Comments like this are so far from what Chomsky actually wrote on these
topics that it's difficult to ascribe them to simple ignorance and
unwillingness to read, rather than to a settled animus towards his
politics.  --CGE

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, geert lovink wrote:


> The problem on Chomsky's side is systematic, in my view. According to
> his Grand Theory of the supremacy of US foreign policy analysis over
> all other elements, the enemy of the US establishment is by default
> Chomsky's friend. We can go back to the wellknown Khmer Rouge and
> Faurisson examples but that's not necessary. Look at Kosovo and the
> way how he actively supported the corrupt nationalists around
> Milosevic. There is plenty of evidence for this. This googled URL is
> just a random one:
> http://www.newsandletters.org/Issues/1999/Dec/12.99_chomsky.htm The
> next casus is already in the making: Chomsky's support for Saddam
> Houssein.
> 
> Geert
> 
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