"Trump Is the Worst Criminal in History, Undeniably"

"Take Richard Nixon. Pretty rotten guy, but when the time came that he had to leave office, he left office quietly. Nobody is expecting that with Trump. He doesn't act like a human being. He's off somewhere else."

Michael Brooks at Jacobin interviews Noam Chomsky.

Windsor Mann at The Week describes Trump as "a president in which incompetence, stupidity, derangement, bigotry, corruption, and dishonesty are each struggling to take the upper hand."

And in a 2019 National Catholic Reporter article, Michael Sean Winters writes how Trump embodies the "seven deadly sins."

"Noam Chomsky Announces Las Vegas Residency"

"'I'm so excited—I've been into Chomsky since college,' said 49-year-old Boise, ID social worker Karen Wenning, who is planning a trip to Las Vegas next month to see the social critic's lavish new production. 'It'll be incredible to hear him denounce transnational corporate power live and in person. I just really hope he does some of his early stuff from American Power And The New Mandarins and Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths In Fact And Propaganda. That stuff is classic.'"

From The Onion.

"We're No Longer a Radio Network, We're a Sad Political Glee Club"

"'National Public Radio was kind of a body blow to Pacifica,' Lasar says. 'It was a more professional and less strident alternative.'
"In Los Angeles, ousted KPFK program director Ruth Hirschman (now Ruth Seymour) built KCRW into a powerhouse. Many of Pacifica's volunteer programmers were happy to let 'corporate' NPR surpass them in listenership; Pacifica was 'community radio.'
"'The central underlying problem at Pacifica,' Marc Cooper says, 'is that in the end, what dictates everything is the individual programmer's desire to hold onto his or her airtime. Management has always been weak.'"


Hillel Aron in the LA Weekly depicts the decline of Pacifica Radio.

"Ratings Low For NPR Morning Zoo Crew"

"'For some reason, radio listeners have not responded to the zany antics of NPR Zookeepers Alex Chadwick, Jean Cochran and Bob Edwards, whose outrageous pranks have included phoning Harper's editor Lewis Lapham at 6 a.m. and telling him that there's a new collection of Nicholson Baker short stories due out in the fall,' NPR programming director James Orbach said."

From The Onion, 1998.

"Exhausted Noam Chomsky Just Going To Try And Enjoy The Day For Once"

"'I just want to lie in a hammock and have a nice relaxing morning,' said the outspoken anarcho-syndicalist academic, who first came to public attention with his breakthrough 1957 book Syntactic Structures. 'The systems of control designed to manufacture consent among a largely ignorant public will still be there for me to worry about tomorrow. Today, I'm just going to kick back and enjoy some much-needed Noam Time.'"

From The Onion.

Carving Out an Alternative

Editors of The American Prospect attempt to define an American foreign policy between, as the March cover puts it, Chomsky and Cheney.