MIT Professor of Linguistics Noam Chomsky, a long-time left-wing writer and activist, told Al-Jazeera that he does not believe President Barack Obama has a âmoral center,â and that he is running a âglobal assassination campaignâ using drone warfare. âThereâs some nice rhetoric here and there, but you look at the actual policies, theyâre pretty shocking,â Chomsky said, speaking of President Obama. âThe drone assassination campaignâs a perfectly good example. Itâs just a global assassination campaign.â In an interview on Saturday, Jan. 12, with Al-Jazeeraâs Rosiland Jordan, Chomsky was asked, âDoes President Barack Obama have a moral compass? And if he does, is he ignoring it at his own peril, at the countryâs peril?â Chomsky said, âItâs an interesting question. During the last election, I happened to be talking to a well-known black activist very much involved in civil rights and other activism, and he told me a story. He said that after Obamaâs first election in 2008, he was visited by a group of African American women leading activists who wanted to talk to him. He said he was there when they came out of the meeting and asked them what he was like.â âAnd their answer was this man has no moral center,â said Chomsky. âThatâs their reaction and I think theyâre right. If you look at his policies, I think thatâs what they reveal.â âThereâs some nice rhetoric here and there but you look at the actual policies, theyâre pretty shocking,â Chomsky said. âThe drone assassination campaignâs a perfectly good example. Itâs just a global assassination campaign.â Noam Chomsky has been a professor of Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 1955. He has also lectured and written on economics, U.S. foreign policy and international relations. In his current post at MIT, he is Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus). http://cnsnews.com/news/article/mit-s-noam-chomsky-obama-s-running-global-assassination-campaign