Renowned American political commentator Noam Chomsky has questioned the sincerity of the Wests proclamations about free speech following the outrage over the recent terrorist attacks in France. In an article published on the CNN website on Monday, Chomsky criticized the West’s propaganda campaign about free speech after several journalists lost their lives during an attack on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Chomsky cited numerous examples of killing journalists all over the world which have received little or no attention as opposed to the Paris incident. Chomsky mentioned the example of the NATO missile attack on Serbian state television headquarters in 1999, which claimed the lives of 16 journalists. However, Chomsky said, the attack was never condemned or denounced and was even hailed by the Western media and statesmen as “an enormously important and … positive development” since it sought “to undermine the regime of President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia” and its alleged propaganda mouthpiece. presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/19/393850/Chomsky-questions-West-free-speech-claims
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:02:18 +0000
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