Many of you have heard the name Noam Chomsky. I don't know how many of you have ever read anything by him. I know that NPR likes to villify him in passing from time to time without ever seriously talking about his ideas or what he has said.
There are also a lot of lies told about him (like he's a Holocaust denier or that he has denied that atrocities occurred in Cambodia.)
In any event, here is an excellent piece from "Democracy Now," which is a transcript of a speech professor Chomsky recently gave in New Mexico.