Noam Chomsky Calls for Marijuana Decriminalization,
Discusses Drug/Terror Links
Philip Smith, DRCNet, February 14, 2002
MIT professor Noam Chomsky has long been one of the nation's most implacable
critics of US foreign policy and domestic inequity, as well as its
highly-concentrated mass media. Lauded by the New York Review of Books as
"America's leading radical intellectual," Chomsky has authored dozens of
books on US policy in the Middle East, Latin America, the former Yugoslavia
and East Timor, among others, as well as "Manufacturing Consent," a scathing
critique of propagandistic corporate media.
A proud anarchist -- he defines anarchism as "a tendency in the history of
human thought and action which seeks to identify coercive, authoritarian,
and hierarchic structures of all kinds and to challenge their legitimacy,
and if they cannot justify their legitimacy, which is quite commonly the
case, to work to undermine them and expand the scope of freedom" -- Chomsky
is a legendary American political dissident whose campus appearances
regularly bring out thousands of students. We spoke with the distinguished
linguist and essayist from his office at MIT.
