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Robbing People Blind: U.S. Economic Policy
Wall Street is on a roll. Profits are going through the roof. Yet, paradoxically workers just had their worst year on record. The US leads in the dubious category of income inequality. Of all the industrialized nations, not one has as great a gulf between the rich and poor as the US, and the situation is rapidly deteriorating. The middle class is shrinking. 1% of the population owns 40% of the nation’s wealth. Interviews. October 31 & November 3, 1995.
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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 95, he continues to inform and inspire people all over the world. He is the author of scores of books, his latest are Consequences of Capitalism, Chronicles of Dissent and Notes on Resistance.
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