Noam Chomsky

American thinker Noam Chomsky discusses the changes that are taking place in American culture and what to expect.

‘Take the United States today. It is living under a kind of totalitarian culture which has never existed in my lifetime, and is much worse in many ways than the Soviet Union before Gorbachev.

Go back to the 1970s, people in Soviet Russia could access BBC, Voice of America, German Television, if they wanted to find out the news.

If you want to find out what [Foreign Minister Sergey] Lavrov of Russia is saying, (you) can't do it. 

It's barred.

Americans are not permitted to hear what Russians are saying.

But the United States has imposed constraints on freedom of access to information which are astonishing, which in fact go beyond what was the case in post-Stalin Soviet Russia.’