In the first of a two-part conversation, Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges discuss, among other subjects, the shift in the U.S. and U.K. in the late 1970s toward neoliberalism, an ideology that Chomsky says “claims it’s increasing freedom [while] it’s actually increasing tyranny.”

— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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