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> Boston University president John Silber complained that Chomsky hadn’t provided proper context when mentioning that the U.S. had assassinated Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, blown up the church radio station, and cut the editor of the independent newspaper to pieces with machetes. Silber neglected to disclose what context could possibly redeem such atrocities.
#JohnSilber #USAAcademia #USAFrauds #OscarRomero

> I told him, yeah, I think it’s an interesting topic, but I warned him, if you follow this, you’re going to get in trouble—because you’re going to expose the American intellectual community as a gang of frauds, and they are not going to like it, and they’re going to destroy you... Well, he didn’t believe me. We became very close friends after this, I didn’t know him before. He went ahead and wrote up an article,
https://chomsky.info/power01/
#ChomskyOnFinkelstein #JoanPeters #USAFrauds