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Noam chomsky ruling class amazon6/11/2023 Who’s going to fund it? You’re not going to get corporate funding. The Intercept is another, which happens to have a rich donor, but that is rare. There is Democracy Now, of course, which has been very accessible. A couple of minutes ago, I got off an interview with The Young Turks, for example. Noam Chomsky: Well there is certainly independent journalism. So, can independent journalism actually exist? Mordecai Lyon: Can you talk about independent journalism? The money has to come from somewhere. In my interview with Professor Chomsky for The Boycott Times, we discuss the power of the people, independent journalism, nationalizing Amazon, the Federal Reserve, and what keeps him going in his long quest for justice. And argues that when the people at large unite and collectively demand an equal share for all, those who currently rule will lose their control as a result. Chomsky is quick to remind anyone who will listen that power is actually in the hands of the people–not the ruling class. From the Sunrise Movement to Extinction Rebellion, to countless people I’ve never heard of, he points to those fighting economic and environmental exploitation around the globe as a shift in the tide. The mood is bleak, yet Chomsky finds every opportunity he can to highlight young people doing the work. Goodman and Chomsky speak for most of the night about the impending environmental catastrophe if humanity does not reconfigure how the world’s resources are distributed, consumed, and discarded. I begin thinking about the questions I would ask if I was Amy Goodman–one of the many journalists that must be held up and celebrated in their quest to report stories that otherwise would not see the light of day. The cover is beaten and torn, notes are scribbled in the margins from when I first read about the explicit ways in which the ruling class manipulates the people through the media. Herman in 1988 I am hoping to get it signed. I look down at my copy of Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent written with Edward S. There is only a long line of people and the anticipation of seeing Noam Chomsky in dialogue with Amy Goodman, live. I’m standing outside Old South Church on Boylston Street, ticket in hand. Art Credit: my mind it is Apand I am back in Boston.
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