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Alternative Radio for February 19, 2007
1:02 PM - 2:00 PM
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Today's Highlight: "South America Rising," with Noam Chomsky
From one end of the continent to the other, South America is rising. After centuries of colonial, semi-colonial rule and Monroe Doctrine U.S. gunboat diplomacy and coups, the erstwhile "banana republics"
are saying, "Basta!" With Chavez in Venezuela and Morales in Bolivia taking the lead, they are being joined by Correa in Ecuador, and to some extent Kirchner in Argentina, Bachelet in Chile, Lula in Brazil and Ortega in Nicaragua in trying to form a new set of relations with the U.S. As Morales says, "We want partners, not bosses." While Washington is fixated on the Middle East, events in South America indicate that formerly subordinate and servile countries are staking out new parameters of independence.
Noam Chomsky, internationally renowned MIT professor, practically invented modern linguistics. In addition to his pioneering work in that field he has been a leading voice for peace and social justice. He is in huge demand as a public speaker all over the world. The New
Statesman calls him, "Our greatest unraveller of accredited lies."
Author of scores of books, his latest are "Failed States," "Perilous Power" and the bestseller "Imperial Ambitions."
Alternative Radio is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and on short-wave on Radio for Peace International.
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Its "headquarters" is situated to correspond with its position in the mainstream mass media: down an alley, behind a house, on top of a garage in Boulder, Colorado. From this rarefied location, AR's programs manage to reach over 125 radio stations and millions of listeners. AR is part of the non-profit Institute for Social and Cultural Change.
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