Speaker 1: Gnom Tromsky has not made any new public appearances or
Speaker 1: statements in the past few days, and that silence is
Speaker 1: itself the headline. Since suffering a massive stroke in June
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three that left him partially paralyzed and with
Speaker 1: severely limited speech, as reported in CounterPunch, his direct participation
Speaker 1: in interviews and events has essentially stopped, and there are
Speaker 1: no verified reports, but this has changed in the last
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. CounterPunch adds that his appetite for news
Speaker 1: remains intact and that he still reacts sharply to images
Speaker 1: from Palestine, but these are private observations from his family
Speaker 1: rather than new public activity. The current news cycle around
Speaker 1: Chansky is therefore driven less by what he does today
Speaker 1: than by how institutions and commentators continue to pay position him.
Speaker 1: The Nation recently ran a substantial essay on his new
Speaker 1: book with Nathan J. Hip Robinson, The Myth of American Idealism,
Speaker 1: describing Chomsky as the most famous critic of US empire
Speaker 1: in the world and casting him as a kind of
Speaker 1: modern Biblical prophet whose works set the template for today's
Speaker 1: skepticism of American power. That article is not breaking news
Speaker 1: about his health or movements, but it is an important
Speaker 1: development in how his legacy is being framed as he
Speaker 1: nears one hundred in terms of fresh biographical relevance. Monthly
Speaker 1: Reviews December twenty twenty five issue includes Chomsky in its
Speaker 1: tributes to media scholar Robert W. Mc chesney, underscoring how
Speaker 1: tightly Chomsky's name is now woven into the story of
Speaker 1: critical media studies and the propaganda model that helped define
Speaker 1: an arrow of left media creek. Chomsky got info. His
Speaker 1: official archive shows no brand new talks or essays in
Speaker 1: the last few days, reinforcing the picture of a towering
Speaker 1: but now largely retrospective presents rather than an active day
Speaker 1: to day commentator. One more thread that continues to surface
Speaker 1: in coverage, including a detailed w b u R investigation
Speaker 1: from November, is the trove of e mails documenting Chomsky's
Speaker 1: long cordial relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, well after Epstein's two
Speaker 1: thousand eight conviction. No new emails have dropped in the
Speaker 1: last few days, but the story lingers as an uncomfortable
Speaker 1: footmote in current assessments of his life. There are no
Speaker 1: credible reports of new business ventures, no recent verified social
Speaker 1: media posts from Chomsky himself and no breaking headlines in
Speaker 1: major outlets in the last twenty four hours announcing changes
Speaker 1: to his condition or role. Thank you for listening and
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