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The Empire Files With Abby Martin: Noam Chomsky On Electing the President of an Empire

The Empire Files With Abby Martin: Noam Chomsky On Electing the President of an Empire
Tue, 10/27/2015 - by Abby Martin
This article originally appeared on Telesur

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Abby Martin interviews world-renowned philosopher and linguist Professor Noam Chomsky.

Prof. Chomsky comments on the presidential primary "extravaganza," the movement for Bernie Sanders, the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal, the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, modern-day libertarianism and the reality of "democracy" under capitalism.

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