[lbo-talk] fundraiser

[Robert D. Day]

Here's a question for Chomsky that I never got to ask when he spoke at
Illinois State University. I called out "Professor Chomsky," when he was at
one of his numerous false stops during the question segment; he looked at me
sympathetically and went on, as though he just couldn't help but answer a
question about media ownership by way of Russian nuclear weapons, or some
such tangent.

He's written a lot about the complicity of American public universities in
various aspects of American Cold War interventions and adventures abroad -
churning out weapons research in exchange for grants, FBI/CIA influence in
scholarly journals and groups, maintaining liberal orthodoxies about foreign
policy and anti-communism, etc. All of this while universities were/are
perceived as bastions of radical thinking. What would Chomsky say is similar
and different about the role of American universities in our current
imperialist projects, Iraq, et al.?

--- Robert D. Day
--- rdday at mchsi.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 1:16 PM
Subject: [lbo-talk] fundraiser

My stint on the WBAi fundraising marathon is next Thursday, 3-6 PM.
I've got an interview with Noam Chomsky lined up already, but I'm
looking for another marquee name to add to the mix - preferably
female, possibly a domestic complement to Noam on the empire. Any
ideas?

Also, any questions you'd like me to ask Chomsky? We record tomorrow
afternoon.

Doug
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