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Originally, this talk was entitled The United States in the Middle East: Confronting Syria. It was the second of three lectures sponsored by the Lebanese Club at MIT. Chomsky did not want to limit the talk to this one subject. Instead, he spoke about the objectives and ramifications of the U.S. presence in the Middle East: oil, Iraq, global planning, and delivering democracy via a military occupation. Chomsky also commented on developments in the continuing Israeli occupation of Palestine. Recorded on February 15, 2005 at M.I.T. in Cambridge, MA.
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About Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is the bestselling author of over 100 influential political books and has collaborated with journalists on books such as Perilous Power, Gaza in Crisis, and On Palestine. He is a laureate professor at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus in the department of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is one of the foremost critics of US foreign policy. He has published numerous groundbreaking books, articles, and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics.