Noam Chomsky: Don't underestimate the risk of nuclear war

World Review from the New Statesman by The New Statesman

May 1, 202331:34News & Politics

Ido Vock speaks to the American linguist Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most prominent commentators on international politics since the Vietnam War. A trenchant critic of American foreign policy, Chomsky explains what...

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