In Episode 125 [11] of the CounterVortex podcast [12], Bill Weinberg continues his deconstruction [13] of the increasingly sinister, aggression-abetting politics of Noam Chomsky [14]. In his recent interview with Current Affairs [15], Chomsky echoes Henry Kissinger [16]'s lecturing to the Ukrainians [17] that they must capitulate to Russian aggression in the interests of global stability—a directive promptly repudiated [18] by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Chomsky has long been peddling historical revisionism [19] on Ukraine, but his current convergence with Kissinger is a case study in imperial narcissism [20]—an internalization of the imperialist perspective he has ostensibly dedicated his life to opposing. Fortunately, there is growing dissent [21] on the left to Chomsky's paradoxical Kissingerian line, including from Ukrainian-American scholars [22]—and from Chomsky's own Ukrainian translator, Artem Chapeye [23].
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Essay discussed: Politics and the English Language [27] by George Orwell, 1945
Production by Chris Rywalt [28]
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