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Noam Chomsky: US and Europe Committing Suicide in Different Ways

8 May 2012

Laura Flanders of GRITtv sat down with professor and author, Noam Chomsky, to discuss his latest publication, OCCUPY, published in the Occupy Media Pamphlet Series by Zuccotti Park Press. During the interview, Chomsky talks about anarchism, racism, corporate power, the media and what it might be like to live in a non-market system.

"The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways," says Chomsky. "In Europe it’s austerity in the midst of recession and that’s guaranteed to be a disaster. There’s some resistance to that now. In the US, it’s essentially off-shoring production and financialization and getting rid of superfluous population through incarceration."

For a complete transcript of this interview, please visit the Alternet website.

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