Chomsky refers to the Palestinians, among other peoples as "unpeople": "Israel has annexed their land, along with that of Sahrawis and Druze, in violation of the unanimous orders of the Security Council, now endorsed by the US." Moreover: "It's an open question how much domestic capital Biden will win with his expected professions of eternal love for Israel. That stance has become less popular among his liberal base than it used to be as Israel's criminal behavior becomes harder to gloss over. All-out support for Israel has shifted to Evangelicals and the right, sectors of which believe Biden is not the elected president and a substantial contingent of which believes Biden and other top Democrats are grooming children for sexual abuse. But there will still probably be some domestic gains. And it will show the hawkish elements that run foreign policy that he's committed to containment of Iran by an Israel-Saudi alliance, to borrow prevailing doctrine."
In June of 2022 at the G20 conference, many nations followed the example of the West in treating the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov "like a skunk at the tropical resort party." But others welcomed him, including the Indonesian hosts and China, India, Brazil, Turkey, Argentina, and others-- "[t]hat raises once again the question of just who is being isolated in the new world order that is taking shape."
To repeat: "Optimism over despair" has always been one of Noam Chomsky's mottos, and thus he contends that humanity can avert a climate catastrophe and a nuclear holocaust, "the two looming existential threats to the continued existence of the world we have created and are now destroying-- the two most important issues in world history."
The world order as it stands is in grim condition, moving daily toward more and more neo-fascism. A new world order is in progress, Chomsky tells us-- the indirect illusion is to one of the mottos on the back of the US dollar bill, novus ordo seclorum (a new order of the ages [is born])--ironically, which originally dates back to a line from the Roman poet Virgil's indirect allusion to Octavian, soon to become Caesar Augustus, emperor over a Roman empire, which the poet anticipates in another context as "imperium sine fine," "an empire without boundaries."
We can maintain what must be the senex [old] ordo, only with prompt action against climate change and the specter of nuclear annihilation. Can this "old order" otherwise improve, once nukes and climate change are off the table? Ask Chomsky. He's pretty critical. But rest assured, he'd once again attempt optimism, if possible (see below).
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**Chomsky suffered a massive stroke in June 2023 (even though a few interviews are dated later than that). I was unable to find information about his current condition. The stroke paralyzed his right side and damaged his ability to speak. The Rozenberg Quarterly reported: "In June 2024 I was listening to Noam Chomsky (recorded) trying to make sense with extremely good poise to a Times journalist to think outside western propaganda bubble." (Click Here) He is completely alert, following events in Gaza, and raises his left arm in anger when the subject is raised.
When in the US last year medical authorities told him and his Brazilian wife Valeria that there was nothing more they could do for him, she moved them to Brazil where he made rapid progress. Among the interviews, Chomsky praises Lula da Silva and laments that, at that time Lula was surrounded with adversaries in the other government branches. [There was a recent (2024) coup d'etat attempt by Bolsonaro there.] Lula did come to visit Chomsky last year and told him that "You are one of the most influential people in my life."
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