{"id":15482,"date":"2011-05-03T08:02:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T14:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15482"},"modified":"2011-05-03T08:02:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T14:02:56","slug":"red-pepper-interview-with-noam-chomsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15482","title":{"rendered":"red pepper: Interview with Noam Chomsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Frank Barat puts questions to Noam Chomsky from artists, activists  and journalists, on Egypt, corporate power, Palestine and more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For his second interview in less than a year with Professor Noam  Chomsky (the first one took place in Cambridge in September 2010 and is  available <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/14835834\">here<\/a>), Frank Barat asked well known artists and journalists to each send one question that they&#8217;d like to ask Noam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Berger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Political practice often surprises political vocabulary. For  example, the recent Revolution in the Middle East is said to demand  Democracy. Can we find more adequate words? Isn&#8217;t the use of the old and  frequently betrayed words a way of absorbing the shock, instead of  welcoming it and transmitting it further?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just to begin I think the word revolution is a bit of an  exaggeration. Maybe it will turn into a revolution but for the moment  it\u2019s a call for a moderate reform. There are elements in it, like the  workers movement that have tried to move beyond that but that remains to  be seen. However, the point is correct but there is no way out of that.  It\u2019s not the just the word democracy, it\u2019s every word that is involved  in discussion of political affairs. It has two meanings. It has its  literal meaning and it has the meaning that\u2019s assigned to it for  political welfare, for ideology, for doctrine. So either we stop talking  or we try to use the words in a sensible way. And it\u2019s not just about  democracy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/interview-with-noam-chomsky\/\">Click here to continue reading\u00a0 &#8220;Interview with Noam Chomsky&#8221;<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*The full video of this interview is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eTMfel0CCK0\">on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Barat puts questions to Noam Chomsky from artists, activists and journalists, on Egypt, corporate power, Palestine and more. For his second interview in less than a year with Professor Noam Chomsky (the first one took place in Cambridge in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15482\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-41I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15486,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15482\/revisions\/15486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}