Critique of Kissinger
Recorded at Georgetown University.
Additional speakers-
Morton Halperin: A Nixon National Security Council staff member and Kissinger aide who resigned over the invasion of Cambodia.
Tran Van Dihn: A South Vietnamese diplomat. He served at the Embassy of Vietnam in Washington, DC 1961-63. He taught at Temple University. He died in 2011.
Fred Branfman: Co-director of the Indochina Resource Center and author of Voices from the Plain of Jars. He died in 2014.
Speaker
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky, by any measure, has led a most extraordinary life. In one index, he is ranked as the eighth most cited person in history, right up there with Aristotle, Shakespeare, Marx, Plato, and Freud. His contributions to modern linguistics are legendary. In addition to his pioneering work in that field, he has been a leading voice for peace and social justice for many decades. Chris Hedges says he is “America’s greatest intellectual” who “makes the powerful, as well as their liberal apologists, deeply uncomfortable.” The New Statesman calls him “the conscience of the American people.” He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. At 97, though having health setbacks, he continues to inform and inspire people all over the world. He is the author of scores of books, including Masters of Mankind, Consequences of Capitalism, Chronicles of Dissent, and Notes on Resistance. He is co-author with Edward Herman of Manufacturing Consent. His latest books are The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World and Surviving the 21st Century.
Mark Pavlick (verified owner) –
This outstanding panel discussion featured Noam Chomsky, Kissinger aide Morton Halperin, Counselor at the Vietnamese Embassy Tran Van Dinh, and antiwar activist Fred Branfman.