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Noam Chomsky on Alexander Cockburn

Laura Flanders and Noam Chomsky

GritTV / Interview

Published: Monday 8 October 2012

Noam Chomsky gives his best at Alexander Cockburn’s memorial held in New York, September 22

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Alexander Cockburn passed away this July. Noam Chomsky, a MIT professor was among the many who gathered to celebrate Cockburn at a memorial held in New York September 22. Noam Chomsky gives some of his last regards for Cockburn's memorial.

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ABOUT Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and pressor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Techonology. Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific communities as one of the fathers of modern linguistics, and a major figure of analytic philosophy. Chomsky is the author of more than 150 books and has received worldwide attention for his views.

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