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AMY GOODMAN: What effect did the Holocaust have on you?...

Join us LIVE FROM CAMBRIDGE for a discussion between Noam Chomsky, MIT's Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, and Amy Goodman, host of.

Noam Chomsky interviewed by Amy Goodman This morning, North Korea announced that on the birthday of the current god, a halo appeared over his.

AMY GOODMAN: What effect did the Holocaust have on you?

Noam Chomsky on Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy.

After world-renowned scholar Noam Chomsky gave a major address on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the hall of the United Nations General.

Failed States

Noam Chomsky interviewed by Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez

Democracy Now, March 31, 2006

AMY GOODMAN: In this first broadcast interview upon publication of his book, Professor Noam Chomsky joins us today from Boston for the hour.

We welcome you to Democracy Now!, Noam.

NOAM CHOMSKY: Glad to be with you again.

AMY GOODMAN: It’s good to have you with us. Failed States, what do you mean?

NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, over the years there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period.

It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.

AMY GOODMAN: In this Democracy Now! special, we spend the hour with the world-renowned linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky.

The Reagan administration concocted a new category: terrorist states. They declared a war on terror as soon as they entered office in the early 1980s, 1981. ‘We have to defend ourselves from the plague of the modern