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<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Chomsky as usual, imposing but also dubious in statements about Bashir al Assad ["<span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">a
horrible war criminal</span><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41);" class=""><font color="#1d2129" face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, .SFNSText-Regular, sans-serif" class="">”</font></span><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">],
and Putin ["</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#1d2129" face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, .SFNSText-Regular, sans-serif" class="">not a nice guy. I would not like to have dinner with him…<span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41);" class="">”</span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">].</span></font></span></div>
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<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#1d2129" class=""> It would be useful to know the basis on which he makes these statements. He has made them before and to my mind has partly
justified American actions in Syria, actions which have created the chaos that exists there.. He then explicitly advocates American troops remaining there</font></span><font color="#1d2129" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41);" class="">. The
above gratuitous remarks reinforce the justification of American imperialism by the media.</span></font></div>
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<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#1d2129" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41);" class="">By the way, a very good article is to be found about Seymour Hersh by Jackson Lears, which has some relevance to Chomsky's reflections: </span></font><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n18/jackson-lears/i-figured-what-the-heck" class="">https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n18/jackson-lears/i-figured-what-the-heck</a></div>
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<div class="">On Oct 1, 2018, at 10:47 PM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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AMERICAN DISSIDENT: NOAM CHOMSKY ON THE STATE OF THE EMPIRE<br class="">
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