This article is from June. I've generally been a bit skeptical of Noam Chomsky's politics but this interaction seems prophetic given the current situation in Sy

This article is from June. I've generally been a bit skeptical of Noam Chomsky's politics but this interaction seems prophetic given the current situation in Syria and makes me think that I should give "Manufacturing Consent" some attention: >But as Patrick Cockburn pointed out in the Independent, what is happening in Afrin is about the same. > AM: Happening where, sorry? > NC: Afrin. Turkish forces and their allies are carrying out the attack in a mostly Kurdish area. Patrick Cockburn has covered it, but almost nobody else. Doing some research on it, the articles I read in the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/10/11/who-are-kurds-why-is-turkey-attacking-them/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/10/11/who-are-kurd...) said that the Turkish offensive was "days old" while the Independent article Chomsky references (https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-afrin-crisis-turkish-forces-civilians-deaths-eastern-ghouta-assad-a8247206.html https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-afrin-crisis-turk...) attributes a death toll of 220 to Turkey in March 2018.