{"id":63668,"date":"2022-10-04T05:43:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T10:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63668"},"modified":"2022-10-04T05:43:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T10:43:47","slug":"rationality-is-not-permitted-chomsky-on-russia-ukraine-and-the-price-of-media-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63668","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rationality is Not Permitted\u2019: Chomsky on Russia, Ukraine and the Price of Media Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018Rationality is Not Permitted\u2019: Chomsky on Russia, Ukraine and the Price of Media Censorship<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Professor Noam Chomsky. (Photo: via Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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One of the reasons that Russian media has been completely blocked in the West, along with the unprecedented control and censorship over the Ukraine war narrative, is the fact that western governments simply do not want their public to know that the world is vastly changing.<\/p>\n

Ignorance might be bliss, arguably in some situations, but not in this case. Here, ignorance can be catastrophic as western audiences are denied access to information about a critical situation that is affecting them in profound ways and will most certainly impact the world\u2019s geopolitics for generations to come.<\/p>\n

The growing\u00a0inflation<\/a>, an imminent global\u00a0recession<\/a>, a festering refugee crisis, a deepening food shortage crisis and much more are the kinds of challenges that require open and transparent discussions regarding the situation in Ukraine, the NATO-Russia rivalry and the responsibility of the West in the ongoing war.<\/p>\n

To discuss these issues, along with the missing context of the Russia-Ukraine war, we\u00a0spoke<\/a>\u00a0with Professor Noam Chomsky, believed to be the greatest living intellectual of our time.<\/p>\n

Chomsky told us that it \u201cshould be clear that the (Russian) invasion of Ukraine has no (moral) justification.\u201d He compared it to the US invasion of Iraq, seeing it as an example of \u201csupreme international crime.\u201d With this moral question settled, Chomsky believes that the main \u2018background\u2019 of this war, a factor that is missing in mainstream media coverage, is \u201cNATO expansion\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not just my opinion,\u201d said Chomsky, \u201cit is the opinion of every high-level US official in the diplomatic services who has any familiarity with Russia and Eastern Europe…<\/p>\n

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\u2018Rationality is Not Permitted\u2019: Chomsky on Russia, Ukraine and the Price of Media Censorship Professor Noam Chomsky. (Photo: via Wikimedia Commons) One of the reasons that Russian media has been completely blocked in the West, along with the unprecedented control and censorship over the Ukraine war narrative, is the fact that western governments simply do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[120,1880,28940,6199,694,821],"class_list":["post-63668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-noam-chomsky","tag-ramzy-baroud","tag-rationality","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63669,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63668\/revisions\/63669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}