<p> <br /><b>NOAM CHOMSKY ON YUGOSLAVIA: BY DANILO MANDIC PART 1 OF 2</b> <br /><br /><b>-Noam Chomsky interviewed by Danilo Mandic <br />, April 25, 2006-</b> <br /><br /><b>NOAM CHOMSKY,</b> world-renowned linguist, political analyst, philosopher and activist, has been called "arguably the most important intellectual alive" by the New York Times. Recently, in a British magazine poll, he has been voted by a landslide as the top public intellectual in the world today. <br /><br />According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, between 1980 and 1992 Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar, and remains the eighth most cited scholar ever. A professor at MIT, he is the author of more than 80 books, including <b>The New Military Humanism: Lessons From Kosovo.</b> His most recent book is Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy. <br /></p><p></p>