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To: Rollcast... who wrote (191759)	9/12/2002 8:37:00 PM
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"Conspiracy theorist?" Noam Chomsky on Microsoft and Corporate Control of the Internet corpwatch.org CorpWatch's Anna Couey and Joshua Karliner caught up with Noam Chomsky by telephone at his home in the Boston area to ask him about Microsoft and Bill Gates. The following is a transcript of our far ranging conversation. After skimming this article, I don't think he actually used the term conspiracy (being a linguist he probably chooses his words carefully), but clearly in his world view we are all being manipulated by an oligopoly of interlocking corporate elites that has been developing over the last hundred-plus years. He hangs out with interesting people: infoshop.org infoshop.org - "your online anarchist community" leftwatch.com Lots of references here that describe Chomsky in less than favorable terms (but that site needs an editor or at least a proof reader). Seems to be at war with his fellow travelers on the Left at times and at all times with the Right. Wrote an essay in support of a Holocaust denier. Wants to abolish the state of Israel. "Thousands killed" when Clinton dropped a few bombs on the pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan. Claimed last winter that US was committing "silent genocide" by starving millions of Afghans. Very odd duck, a loose canon, and not very credible, in my opinion. Living proof of the deleterious effects of tenure on the mind. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.