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A recording of a historic address given by Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s leading intellectuals, this powerful footage offers an analysis of current world events, including the economic crisis and its structural roots, U.S. foreign policy under the Obama administration, and the social and economic interest driving both foreign and domestic policy. This debate also speaks to the tradition of worker self-management as a concrete alternative to the business-as-usual approach that corporations and the government are currently employing. A timely, provocative analysis, this talk presents the most current philosophies of Chomsky, concluding with a one-on-one interview that gives additional insight into his worldview and global affairs.
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The talk was sponsored by the Brecht Forum and cosponsors included the Education Ministry of the Riverside Church, Mission and Social Justice Commission of the Riverside Church, Theatre of the Oppressed at the Riverside Church, the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory, and Bluestockings Books. More than 2,000 people attended the lecture captured here, in which Chomsky offered a powerful analysis of the current economic crisis and its structural roots, the continuity in U.S. foreign policy under the Barack Obama administration, and the class interests driving U.S. domestic and foreign policy. He also speaks at length about the tradition of worker self-management as a concrete alternative to the business-as-usual approach of corporations and the government during the current crisis. The DVD also features an introduction by Amy Goodman and an exclusive one-on-one interview with Chomsky.
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