Noam Chomsky explains the U.S. role in the crisis in Honduras: "People are fleeing from the misery and horrors for which we are responsible" http://ow.ly/e0v430mtHhM | Democracy Now!

World-renowned linguist Noam Chomsky on Swedish student activist Elin Ersson who prevented an airplane from taking off because on it was an asylum seeker who was being deported back to Afghanistan: "Here’s one young woman standing up alone to try to prevent a person from being killed in difficult and hostile conditions. Large-scale civil disobedience could achieve a great deal more." http://ow.ly/tNlo30l9FbJ | Democracy Now!

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory was a quite spectacular and significant event. I think what it points to is a split in the Democratic Party between the—roughly speaking, between the popular base and the party managers" - Noam Chomsky on Democracy Now! http://ow.ly/9kRD30laFPs | Democracy Now!