"Take the United States today, it is living under a kind of totalitarian culture which has never existed in my lifetime and is much worse in many ways than the Soviet Union before Gorbachev. Go back to the 1970s. People in Soviet Russia could access BBC, Voice of America, German Television, if they wanted to find out the news. If today, in the United States, you want to find out what Prime Minister Lavrov of Russia is saying, can't do it. It's barred. Americans are not permitted to hear what Russians are saying. Canāt get Russian television, canāt access Russian sources. That means also that fine American journalists like Chris Hedges, one of the best, is cut out, barred from Americans, because he happens to have a program running on RTā¦. the United States has imposed constraints on freedom of access to information which are astonishing and, which in fact, go beyond what was the case in post-Stalin Soviet Russia. Thatās just a remarkable factā¦. Anyone who dares to break the party line on the dominant issue of today, Ukraine, is simply demonized, vilified. Canāt be sent to the gulagā free country, stillā but you can barely talkā¦"
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We Are F*ckedā, Interview with Russell Brand, (July 22, 2022).
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Noam Chomsky
philosopher, linguist, political writer
1928 Ā· United States
US-amerikanischer Sprachwissenschaftler und Autor
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