This quote opens a video of Chomsky you can watch at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHbecRQLvEM It is very short and concerns the position in Iran. The level of deceit and lies being spread about Iran and promoted so ruthlessly by Israel has reached disease proportions. In varying scenarios presented these Muslim monsters are doing their level best to destroy the world and this [...]
The Secret of Noam: A Chomsky Interview Noam Chomsky interviewed by Jeff Jetton and Dakota Fine Brightest Young Things, March 9, 2011 “Isn’t it interesting,” he pauses, reflecting, “that eating a banana is somehow comical.” Noam Chomsky says this to me with a straight face.He understands the humor in [...]
The Occupy Wall Street movement represents the first major public response to more than 30 years of class war—orchestrated by the ruling elite—that has led to social, economic and political arrangements in which the democratic system has been shredded, according to MIT professor Noam Chomsky. “Concentration of [...]
The Imperial Way American Decline in Perspective, Part 2 By Noam Chomsky Part 1 February 15, 2012 “Tom Dispatch ” – In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere. In the past decade, for the first time in 500 years, South America has taken successful steps [...]
Recognizing the “Unpeople” By Noam Chomsky January 08, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — On June 15, three months after the NATO bombing of Libya began, the African Union presented to the U.N. Security Council the African position on the attack – in reality, bombing by their [...]
The Manipulation of Fear By Noam Chomsky January 08, 2011 “Thelka” July 16, 2005 — The resort to fear by systems of power to discipline the domestic population has left a long and terrible trail of bloodshed and suffering which we ignore at our peril. Recent [...]
This is the full text of the speech he gave in 2009 at the Riverside Church. Noam Chomsky, the MIT professor, author and dissident intellectual, just turned eighty years old this past December. He has written over 100 books, but despite being called “the most important intellectual alive” by [...]
Noam Chomsky: The U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement is ‘part of a global program of world militarization’ interview with Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers | December 16, 2011, 1:18 pm [Editor's. note: This is a transcript of a conversation between members of the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers and Noam Chomsky, which took place on [...]
BOOK REVIEW Down the wrong path 9-11: Was There an Alternative? by Noam Chomsky Reviewed by Christopher Bartlo “The book you are holding was conceived, produced, and published as an act of protest.” This is the first line of the editor’s introduction to Noam Chomsky’s revised book about the causes and effects of [...]
video at http://www.democracynow.org/2011/9/19/noam_chomsky_on_the_legality_of As the manhunt for Col. Muammar Gaddafi continues, MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky questions the legality of the continued NATObombing campaign. “My own feeling was that you could have made a case for a no-fly zone and protection of civilians, but I think it’s much harder to make a case for direct participation in a civil [...]
Q&A with Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky interviewed by Jennifer Pagliaro The Charlatan (Carleton University), June 4, 2011 The Charlatan: I saw that you were quoted as saying “education is ignorance” –Noam Chomsky: Well, that’s what it often is in practice. It shouldn’t be.TC: I’m just wondering if you can speak to this idea of education [...]
The UN could establish a Nuclear-Free Middle East Zone with the help of the US that is busy securing oil supplies [EPA] The dire threat of Iran is widely recognised to be the most serious foreign policy crisis facing the Obama administration. General Petraeus informed the Senate Committee on Armed Services in March 2010 that [...]
The Unipolar Moment and the Obama Era Noam Chomsky Text of lecture given at Nezahualcóyotl Hall, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), University City, Federal District, Mexico, September 21, 2009 In thinking about international affairs, it is useful to keep in mind several principles of considerable generality and import. The first is the [...]
The Radical Intellectual Noam Chomsky Text of lecture delivered at the Haven Center, Madison, Wisconsin, April 8, 2010 I don’t have to say how pleased and grateful I am for this honor, which also offers an occasion to look back over the years. What comes to mind with particular [...]
Noam Chomsky on Israel-Palestine Prisoner Exchange, U.S. Assassination Campaign in Yemen Image via Wikipedia democracynow on Oct 18, 2011 Posted on October 24, 2011 by dandelionsalad Dandelion Salad MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, the world renewed linguist and political dissident, spoke Monday night at Barnard College in New York City about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, just hours before [...]
Noam Chomsky’s Theory of Justice Robert Abele Forthcoming in the Encyclopedia of Social Justice, Springer Publishing, The Hague, Netherlands, 2011 Although Noam Chomsky (1928- ) is most renowned in academia for his linguistic theory, it is his political writings that have made him most revered with both activist and public readers. This is in part due [...]
The following interview with Chomsky has been translated from German to English using a net based Google translation service. As a result it is not possible to say the translation is accurate. George Ikners ikners.com Campus TIME: Professor Chomsky, you are not only one of the most cited scientists in the world, you are [...]
“The West Is Terrified of Arabic Democracies” Noam Chomsky interviewed by Qantara Qantara, June 17, 2011 Mr. Chomsky, many people claim that the Arab world is incompatible with democracy. Would you say that the recent developments falsify this thesis?Noam Chomsky: The thesis never had any basis whatsoever. The Arab-Islamic world has a long history of [...]
AMY GOODMAN: We continue with Noam Chomsky. His latest book, 9-11: Was There an Alternative?, has been republished—well, with a new essay about the assassination of Osama bin Laden. His original book,9-11, just months published after the 9/11 attacks, was the seminal counter-narrative to what was being said after the attacks of September 11th, 2001, as he [...]
The Secret of Noam: A Chomsky Interview Noam Chomsky interviewed by Jeff Jetton and Dakota Fine Brightest Young Things, March 9, 2011 “Isn’t it interesting,” he pauses, reflecting, “that eating a banana is somehow comical.” Noam Chomsky says this to me with a straight face.He understands the humor in the situation, yet to his mind [...]
Noam Sayin’? The High Times Interview with Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky interviewed by T.A. Sedlak High Times, July 29, 2011 Q: You’ve spoken out against the War on Drugs, explaining that it’s essentially a means to lock up poor people, that it actually increases drug use, and that it serves as an excuse to control [...]
The following are a list of debates featuring Noam Chomsky on a range of topics. · Noam Chomsky debates Ian Williams in Foreign Policy in Focus.. August 3 – September 1, 2009. · Noam Chomsky + Robert Trivers. Discussion with Robert Trivers. September 6, 2006. · Chat With Chomsky. With Washington Post readers. March 24, 2006. · Science [...]
Noam Chomsky, The Imperial Mentality and 9/11 Posted by Noam Chomsky at 7:46am, September 6, 2011. This is, of course, the week before the tenth anniversary of the day that “changed everything.” And enough was indeed changed that it’s easy to forget what that lost world was like. Here’s a little reminder of that moment just before [...]
Noam Chomsky on Civil Rights, Obama, Latin America, and the History of the U.S. in the Middle East Share1894 We continue our conversation with world-renowned public intellectual,MIT Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Noam Chomsky. Watch Part I of the Interview Democracy Uprising in theUSA?hereusanoam NOAM CHOMSKY: We were talking about unions before. Union busting is criminal activity by the [...]
Video:Noam Chomsky: it doesn’t matter to western leaders what Arab populations think (6min 48sec) Related articles American Decline: Causes and Consequences by Noam Chomsky (via Dandelion Salad) (richardemanuel.wordpress.com) A further Democracy Now! video with Chomsky. “The genie is out of the bottle” (ikners.com) Professor Noam Chomsky – Public lecture in Melbourne Australia 2011 (acc1048.wordpress.com) An [...]
Noam Sayin’? The High Times Interview with Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky interviewed by T.A. Sedlak High Times, July 29, 2011 Q: You’ve spoken out against the War on Drugs, explaining that it’s essentially a means to lock up poor people, that it actually increases drug use, and that it serves as an excuse to control [...]
Noam Chomsky debates Ian Williams in Foreign Policy in Focus “Ban Ki Moon and R2P” By Ian Williams Foreign Policy in Focus, August 3, 2009 Kofi Annan‘s greatest achievement as UN secretary general was his deft steering of the UN General Assembly to accept the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine at the 2005 [...]
Noam Chomsky on Terrorizing Cuba Posted by Noam Chomsky at 6:00pm, August 14, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Just a little reminder that if you are already an Amazon.com customer and go to that site to purchase anything via a TomDispatch book link or book cover image, we get a small percentage of whatever you spend at [...]
JUAN GONZALEZ: Inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, a rolling rebellion continues to unfold across North [Africa] and the Middle East, often amid violent repression by state security forces. During an overnight raid in the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain, heavily armed riot police surrounded thousands of demonstrators who were sleeping in the central square [...]
America in Decline Noam Chomsky Truthout, August 5, 2011 “It is a common theme” that the United States, which “only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world as a colossus with unparalleled power and unmatched appeal is in decline, ominously facing the prospect of its final decay,” Giacomo Chiozza writes in [...]
When we settled on the title for this talk, few could have guessed how apt it would prove to be when the time came — how dramatically the world would be changing, and how far-reaching are the implications for domestic and world order. The democracy uprising in the Arab world has been a spectacular display [...]
Noam Chomsky to receive the 2011 Sydney Peace Prize 2 June 2011 ShareThis Professor Noam Chomsky was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for “unfailing moral courage”. The American linguist, social scientist and human rights campaigner Professor Noam Chomsky was last night announced as the 2011 recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize. The Peace Prize is [...]
It’s not radical Islam that worries the US — it’s independence Noam Chomsky The Guardian, February 4, 2011 “The Arab world is on fire,” al-Jazeera reported last week, while throughout the region, western allies “are quickly losing their influence”. The shock wave was set in motion by the dramatic uprising in Tunisia that drove out [...]
