Cultural Writing. "Colombia has been the leading recipient of US arms and training in the western hemisphere through the 1990's. It has also had the worst human rights record by far.during these three years. The correlation is one of the best correlations in contemporary history.which should be known and understood by the people who are paying for it. That's us. And it will get worse"-Noam Chomsky, from the CD. In this clear, concise and sometimes bitterly funny lecture, Chomsky shows us who is getting the money, who is producing and exporting the drugs, and what the war on the ground is really about.

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Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 7, 1928. He studied linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1955, he received his Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Since receiving his Ph. D., Chomsky has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics. Chomsky is the author of numerous best-selling political works, which have been translated into scores of countries worldwide. His most recent books are the New York Times bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, Imperial Ambitions, What We Say Goes, INTERVENTIONS, The Essential Chomsky and MAKING THE FUTURE.