{"id":209629,"date":"2022-04-25T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=209629"},"modified":"2022-04-18T08:37:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T07:37:24","slug":"noam-chomsky-and-jeremy-scahill-on-the-russia-ukraine-war-the-media-propaganda-and-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/04\/noam-chomsky-and-jeremy-scahill-on-the-russia-ukraine-war-the-media-propaganda-and-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Noam Chomsky and Jeremy Scahill on the Russia-Ukraine War, the Media, Propaganda, and Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Noam Chomsky spoke with Jeremy Scahill in a wide-ranging discussion on Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

14 Apr 2022 – <\/em>The Russian invasion of Ukraine has now surpassed 50 days of sustained mass death and destruction. Despite several rounds of\u00a0negotiations over the past seven weeks, the\u00a0war continues to intensify. Russian President Vladimir Putin remains defiant and has indicated that the brutal military campaign will continue unabated. On Tuesday,\u00a0Putin\u00a0said<\/a> negotiations had hit a \u201cdead end\u201d and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov\u00a0warned<\/a>\u00a0that Russia will not pause its military operations during future peace talks. U.S. President Joe Biden announced this week yet another allocation<\/a> of $800 million dollars in \u201cmore sophisticated and heavier-duty weaponry\u201d than previous transfers to the Ukrainian side. Meanwhile, NATO appears set to expand further, with both Finland and Sweden indicating they are actively considering joining the alliance. Germany and other European countries are publicly committing to buying and selling more weapons and spending more on defense. NATO is raising the prospect of expanding its permanent military presence in Europe, and Washington is reasserting<\/a> its political dominance over Europe on security matters.<\/p>\n

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On Sunday, in an interview on NBC, national security adviser Jake Sullivan cast the war not just as a defense of Ukraine but also an opportunity to deliver significant blows to the stability of the Russian state. \u201cAt the end of the day, what we want to see is a free and independent Ukraine, a weakened and isolated Russia, and a stronger, more unified, more determined West,\u201d he said. \u201cWe believe that all three of those objectives are in sight, can be accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As Ukraine and its Western allies accuse Russian forces of heinous war crimes and crimes against humanity, including massacres of large numbers of civilians, Putin\u2019s government and media apparatus is waging an all-out campaign<\/a> to denounce the allegations as lies<\/a> and fake news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Biden has officially accused Putin of war crimes and suggested he should face a \u201cwar crime trial.\u201d Russia, like the U.S.<\/a>, has steadfastly refused to ratify the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court, so it is unclear how or where the administration believes such a trial would take place.<\/p>\n

This week, renowned dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky joined me for a wide-ranging discussion on\u00a0Russia\u2019s invasion of\u00a0Ukraine, holding the powerful accountable, the role of media and propaganda in war, and what Chomsky believes is necessary to end the bloodshed in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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\nAvram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist,<\/strong> historian, logician, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes described as “the father of modern linguistics,” Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy, and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He has spent more than half a century at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is Institute Professor Emeritus, and is the author of over 100 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, mass media,<\/em> US foreign policy, social issues, Latin American and European history, and more.<\/em> His latest books are <\/em>Failed States, The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy<\/a> and <\/em>Hegemony or Survival<\/a>, both in the American Empire Project<\/a> series at Metropolitan Books.<\/em> \u00a0noamchomsky@\u200bemail.arizona.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Jeremy Scahill<\/strong><\/a> is an investigative reporter, war correspondent<\/strong> and author of the international bestselling books <\/em>Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield\u00a0<\/em>and <\/em>Blackwater: The Rise of the World\u2019s Most Powerful Mercenary Army<\/em>.\u00a0He has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Nigeria, the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere across the globe. Scahill has served as the National Security Correspondent for <\/em>The Nation Magazine <\/em>and <\/em>Democracy Now!.<\/em> His work has sparked several Congressional investigations and won some of journalism\u2019s highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for his book <\/em>Blackwater.<\/em>\u00a0Scahill is a producer and writer of the award-winning film <\/em>Dirty Wars<\/em>, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and has been nominated for an Academy Award. jeremy.scahill@\u200btheintercept.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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