• Noam Chomsky addressed a packed Room 26-100 and overflow
crowds in five other rooms.       Photo / Laura Wulf      Full
Screen  Chomsky criticizes US violence   Giving his take on "The
War on Terrorism," Institute Professor Noam A. Chomsky described
the events of Sept. 11 as a "horrendous atrocity, probably the
most devastating instant human toll of any crime in history
outside of war," then went on to suggest that even this horror
may be seen in the context of the chronic use of violence by
powerful, wealthy nations.  "This is the culture in which we
live," said the professor of linguistics and long-time
progressive activist in his Oct. 18 lecture. "The world is ruled
by force. The only way we can put a permanent end to terrorism
is to stop participating in it."  Throughout the talk in a
packed Room 26-100 (also seen via video in five overflow rooms),
Chomsky bore down on the "propagandist, militarist leaning" in
US media, as well as what he described as the history of
American terrorism in Nicaragua, Chil