President Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney may ignore the issues of global warming and nuclear proliferation, but Noam Chomsky addresses those and other topics in a talk he gave last month at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst at an event sponsored by the Center for Popular Economics.

— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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