{"id":219256,"date":"2022-09-12T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=219256"},"modified":"2022-09-06T06:28:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T05:28:49","slug":"a-warning-from-chomsky-and-ellsberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/09\/a-warning-from-chomsky-and-ellsberg\/","title":{"rendered":"A Warning from Chomsky and Ellsberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>30 Aug 2022<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s beyond lunacy,\u201d say Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg. In their 90s, the two men tirelessly fight to warn people of the need for urgent action to deal with climate change and the threat of nuclear war. Joining Paul Jay, they discuss the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the war in Ukraine, and the climate crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RN_ZfJAXHeU
\nAvram Noam Chomsky<\/strong><\/em> is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, 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

Daniel Ellsberg<\/em><\/strong> is a former US military analyst who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers, which revealed how the US public had been misled about the Vietnam War.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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