Noam Chomsky on the Global Economic Crisis, Healthcare, US Foreign Policy and Resistance to American Empire

Part II of our conversation with MIT professor and author Noam Chomsky on the global economic crisis, healthcare, the media, US foreign policy, the expanding wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, resistance to American empire, and more.

As far as policy is concerned, unless [Obama] is under a lot of pressure from activist sectors, hes not going to go beyond what hes presented himself as in actual policy statements or cabinet choices and so on: a centrist Democrat [whos] going to basically continue Bushs polices, maybe in a more modulated way, says Chomsky.