Chomsky
Predicts Nuclear War If Present U.S. Policies Continue
Comment
by Larry Ross,
March 6, 2006
The world's leading intellectual, with a lifetime of political observation,
achievement and excellence, predicts a nuclear Armageddon if current
U.S. foreign policies are continued.
I believe he is right, and that the present
U.S. policies will continue unless President Bush is impeached. He is
absolutely committed to his tissue of lies justifying the Iraq war.
It is part of his phoney "war on terror" with a war on Iran
next on the agenda of Bush and his neocons.
Bush claims to believe he has God on his
side; consults with God, and in any case he believes God predicted Armageddon
in the Bible. So nuclear war is okay, even heavenly ordained to the
Bushites. Millions of American Christian Fundamentalists want to be
raptured to heaven and believe Bush is their man who may make it possible
as their "end times" approach.
Unfortunately the United States is in the grip of psychopaths who will
not stop at any crime to achieve their goals.
They have anointed themselves with a veneer of fanatic patriotism, piety
and the flag. They continue their multiplying crimes protected by an
increasingly fascist military state where no dissent is tolerated.
It is time for sane, responsible citizens
to mobilise and get rid of the Bush regime. If you don't act before
Bush goes to war on Iran, it will probably be too late.
There are dire consequences
to the current direction of the U.S. foreign policy, said Noam Chomsky
in a speech Saturday at Binghamton University. Among those consequences,
he said, is a nuclear Armageddon.
"Under the current U.S. policies, a nuclear exchange is inevitable,"
the 77-year-old MIT professor said in his presentation, "Imminent
Crises: Paths Toward Solutions." He spoke to an over-capacity crowd
in BU's Osterhout Concert Theater.
Chomsky cited nuclear proliferation and environmental collapse as the
two greatest crises that "literally threaten survival."
Since the 1960s Chomsky, a widely acclaimed professor of linguistics,
has crusaded against political contradiction, nuclear proliferation
and Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Regarded by many as the greatest
intellectual alive today and dismissed by others as a radical, Chomsky
has voiced harsh criticism against the foreign policy of the United
States since World War II.
About 1,500 people crammed into the main theater, while a television
broadcast the speech to a room of about 500 next door. Ushers were forced
to turn hundreds of people away as the building filled beyond its capacity.
The world's leading intellectual, with a lifetime of political observation, achievement and excellence, predicts a nuclear Armageddon if current U.S. foreign policies are continued.
I believe he is right, and that the present U.S. policies will continue unless President Bush is impeached. He is absolutely committed to his tissue of lies justifying the Iraq war. It is part of his phoney "war on terror" with a war on Iran next on the agenda of Bush and his neocons.
Bush claims to believe he has God on his side; consults with God, and in any case he believes God predicted Armageddon in the Bible. So nuclear war is okay, even heavenly ordained to the Bushites. Millions of American Christian Fundamentalists want to be raptured to heaven and believe Bush is their man who may make it possible as their "end times" approach.
Unfortunately the United States is in the grip of psychopaths who will not stop at any crime to achieve their goals.
They have anointed themselves with a veneer of fanatic patriotism, piety and the flag. They continue their multiplying crimes protected by an increasingly fascist military state where no dissent is tolerated.
It is time for sane, responsible citizens to mobilise and get rid of the Bush regime. If you don't act before Bush goes to war on Iran, it will probably be too late.
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World in peril, Chomsky tells overflow crowd
by Brian Liberatore, March 6, 2006
There are dire consequences to the current direction of the U.S. foreign policy, said Noam Chomsky in a speech Saturday at Binghamton University. Among those consequences, he said, is a nuclear Armageddon.
"Under the current U.S. policies, a nuclear exchange is inevitable," the 77-year-old MIT professor said in his presentation, "Imminent Crises: Paths Toward Solutions." He spoke to an over-capacity crowd in BU's Osterhout Concert Theater.
Chomsky cited nuclear proliferation and environmental collapse as the two greatest crises that "literally threaten survival."
Since the 1960s Chomsky, a widely acclaimed professor of linguistics, has crusaded against political contradiction, nuclear proliferation and Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Regarded by many as the greatest intellectual alive today and dismissed by others as a radical, Chomsky has voiced harsh criticism against the foreign policy of the United States since World War II.
About 1,500 people crammed into the main theater, while a television broadcast the speech to a room of about 500 next door. Ushers were forced to turn hundreds of people away as the building filled beyond its capacity.