Analyzing the Nato bombing campaign over Kosovo, Noam Chomsky poses questions about the New Humanism: "Is it guided by power interests or by humanitarian concern? Is the resort to force undertaken in the name of principles and values, as professed? Or are we witnessing something more crass and familiar?". Chomsky peels back rhetorical claims that the US and its allies fight for the end of ethnic cleansing. Instead he sets out to reveal a world where victims of human rights violations are either "worthy or unworthy", citing the unworthiness of Turkish Kurdish victims. He sounds an alarm as he investigates the damning evidence that the West knew NATO bombings would escalate Serb atrocities and that diplomacy efforts were passed over in favour of war.
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