Cheers, Ken Hanly
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [I wrote Noam, saying it must feel odd to be praised
> by ObL. His
> answer: "Feels more odd to be mentioned in the same
> breath with the
> ultra-hawk Michael Scheuer...."]
>
>
> New York Post - September 8, 2007
>
> TERROR LORD'S LEFTY 'CHUM' CHOMSKY
> By ANDY SOLTIS
>
> Osama bin Laden took time in his videotape rant to
> play literary
> critic - plugging the writing of leftist MIT
> professor Noam Chomsky.
>
> Chomsky is "one of the most capable of those from
> your own side," bin
> Laden said.
>
> Chomsky is a bitter critic of U.S. foreign policy,
> which he equated
> with terrorism in his 2003 book "Hegemony or
> Survival: America's
> Quest for Global Dominance."
>
> A year ago, Chomsky's book got another boost when
> Venezuelan dictator
> Hugo Chavez waved a copy of it during the notorious
> speech at the
> United Nations in which he called President Bush
> "the devil."
>
> "I think that the first people who should read this
> book are our
> brothers and sisters in the United States, because
> the threat is in
> their own house," Chavez said.
>
> The book surged in sales as a result, vaulting from
> No. 160,722 on
> Amazon.com to No. 7.
>
> ___________________________________
>
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>
Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html