Nothing in this article mentions that National Institutes of Health public-sector funding does all the work in general research before they give a patent to the private sector so that the public pays twice.

RT on US public research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN5_j7Yq9WA

(Note I think public funding for science is a good thing, unlike this attack piece by RT, but that is not the point.)

Chomsky also talks about how state-sector created the transistor for example at AT&T Bell Labs.