Noam Chomsky: "our lab was also one of the main centres for the anti-war resistance movement"

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/afc74988-8c96-11e2-aed2-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2NdWeXNhj

Lunch with the FT: Noam Chomsky

By John McDermott

The linguistics professor is seen by some as a truth-teller, by others as an anti-US crank. He talks to John McDermott about the link between activism and academia

On the way back to the new MIT building, Chomsky points out that his office now looks out on to the Koch building, named after the billionaire brothers and Tea Party supporters. “They’re a lethal force,” he says. What about the Lockheed Martin classroom, I ask, which we pass in the foyer. “I’ve managed to avoid it so far.” He explains that when he joined MIT it was nearly 100 per cent Pentagon-funded “but our lab was also one of the main centres for the anti-war resistance movement”.