>Um. Why on earth would the article mention that? What does US foreign policy have to do with the life and work of one academic/writer? Because 99% of "academi

>Um. Why on earth would the article mention that? What does US foreign policy have to do with the life and work of one academic/writer? Because 99% of "academics writers" on such issues push US foreign policy, with very few exceptions, like Chomsky (which is not an academic in those fields of study, anyway). Think tanks even more so. This very article, for example, targets US's target du jour, Iran.