Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal \"Profound Hatred for Dem torrent

Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal \"Profound Hatred for Democracy on the Part of Our Political Leadership\"

In a national broadcast exclusive interview, we speak with world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky about the release of more than 250,000 secret U.S. State Department cables by WikiLeaks. In 1971, Chomsky helped government whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg release the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret internal U.S. account of the Vietnam War. Commenting on the revelations that several Arab leaders are urging the United States to attack Iran, Chomsky says, \"latest polls show] Arab opinion holds that the major threat in the region is Israel, thatâs 80 percent; the second threat is the United States, thatâs 77 percent. Iran is listed as a threat by 10 percent,\" Chomsky says. \"This may not be reported in the newspapers, but itâs certainly familiar to the Israeli and U.S. governments and the ambassadors. What this reveals is the profound hatred for democracy on the part of our political leadership.\"

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