Noam Chomsky passed today at 95. --- Actually, he's still alive. He was just sent home from the hospital after a stroke, and people feared the worst!!
His efforts to dig beyond the surface level of propaganda in the media is needed now more than ever. I try to follow his call to act in such a way so you can look yourself in the mirror each night, and his unwavering optimism amid his deep dives into atrocities. Here's Jacobin's farewell and one from Yanis Varoufakis. I summarized some of his words in these posts over the last dozen years or so.
On Chomsky (summary of Understanding Power)
Chomsky's Forward to Albert's Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism
On Chomsky's Driving Forces in US Foreign Policy
Requiem for the American Dream
Nader Interview with Chomsky on the Requiem for the American Dream (with Ralph Nader)
Inconceivable! His Dinner with Chomsky (interview with Wallace Shawn - I don't get enough credit for my post titles!)
Chomsky's Optimism: On Climate. Change, Nuclear War, and Activism (podcast with Truthdig)
The Future of the Left with Natalie and Noam (interview with flippin' Contrapoints)
Chomsky's Lessons from 2021 (interview with Yanis Vanoufakis)
And a bunch of iconic quotes:
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