On Noam Chomsky

Chomsky As the Rest of the World Knows Him …By Sonali Kolhatkar, Uprising Radio … Posted on June 7, 2007, Printed on June 7, 2007…http://www.alternet.org/story/53257/
Since 2002, the New York Times Syndicate has been distributing op-eds written by the pre-eminent foreign policy critic and scholar of our time, Noam Chomsky. The New York Times Syndicate is part of the same company as the New York Times newspaper, and while readers around the world have had a chance to regularly read Chomsky's articles, the New York Times newspaper has never published a single one. Only a few regional newspapers in the US have picked up the Op-eds, such as the Register Guard, the Dayton Daily News, and the Knoxville Voice. Internationally, the Op-eds have appeared in the mainstream British press including the International Herald Tribune, the Guardian, and the Independent. Now, City Lights Books has just published a complete collection of these 1000 word Op-eds in a single book called Interventions

Noam Chomsky, cut from a cloth similar to Cindy Sheehan, and choosing to speak unwavering truth similarly is summarily depicted as a “gook” by the reputedly epitome of published truth the New York Times.

It is telling … “while readers around the world have had a chance to regularly read Chomsky's articles, the New York Times newspaper has never published a single one.” Truth telling is subject to the whim$ of “corporate” verification and justification, whose god is greed.

I rise not to say Chomsky is always correct, but to deny American readers the right to read and digest his philosophy is an egregious affront when evoking the 1st Amendment to our Constitution which corporate controlled mass media (New York Times, et. al.) does when they feel their sacred-ox is being gored.