Thread by @P_Kallioniemi

In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce an American author and academic, Noam Chomsky. He's best-known for his long history as a political commentator and left-wing activist, and for his staunch criticism of the US foreign policy since the 1960s.

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Chomsky's antiwar activism started around 1962, when he was protesting against the US involvement in the Vietnam War. He started writing essays and eventually books, targeted mostly to the American "New Left" movement. His criticism towards US interventionism continued...

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...during the 70s and the 80s, resisting US involvement in conflicts like Nicaraguan Contra War and the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Since then, everything he does or says is shrouded with rabid anti-Americanism. He seems to consider the US as the "root of all evil", ...

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...regardless of their involvement and role. He is the ultimate epitome of a "whataboutist", and there simply is no discussion which he can't turn into US bashing.

In 1988 he co-authored his best-known book, Manufacturing Consent. It outlines a propaganda model for...

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...understanding how the mainstream media manipulates people. He argued that the mass media in the US are "ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function".

In 2011 he told the journalist George Monbiot that calling Srebrenica Massacre a...
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...genocide "cheapens the word". He also denied a report by Ed Vulliamy on the existence of Bosnian concentration camps, stating that Vulliamy "got caught up in a story that probably wasn't true". But it wasn't the first genocide Chomsky had denied. He also criticized...

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