Chomsky on Haiti [CounterPunch]

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By KEANE BHATT

For
decades, Noam Chomsky has been an analyst and activist working in
support of the Haitian people. In addition to his revolutionary
linguistics career at MIT, he has written, lectured and protested
against injustice for 40 years. He is co-author, along with Paul Farmer
and Amy Goodman of Getting Haiti Right This Time: The U.S. and the
Coup. His analysis "The Tragedy of Haiti" from his 1993 book Year 501: The Conquest Continues
is available for free online. This interview was conducted in late
February 2010 by phone and email. The interviewer thanks Peter Hallward
for his kind assistance.

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