March 17, 2012
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 [...]
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March 5, 2012
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 [...]
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December 3, 2011
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 [...]
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November 29, 2011
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 [...]
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November 24, 2011
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 [...]
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October 28, 2011
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 [...]
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October 28, 2011
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 [...]
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October 15, 2011
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 [...]
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September 29, 2011
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 [...]
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September 23, 2011
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 [...]
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September 23, 2011
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 [...]
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September 21, 2011
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 [...]
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September 6, 2011
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 [...]
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August 29, 2011
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 [...]
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August 14, 2011
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 [...]
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August 14, 2011
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 [...]
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August 14, 2011
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 [...]
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July 6, 2011
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 [...]
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July 4, 2011
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 [...]
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June 27, 2011
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the [...]
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June 27, 2011
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein is fast becoming the locus classicus as far as how the US in particular and Capital in general controls its conquests. Of course Noam Chomsky has written about this state of affairs with a different emphasis for over half a century and would have to be this and the last [...]
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June 24, 2011
Tom Engelhardt There has been a great deal written and said about what is seen as the imperial project and the way in which imperialist aims and aspirations invariably are expressed in terms of war. Perhaps one of the most startling figures available is the way in which war itself has become very much a slaughterhouse [...]
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May 28, 2011
The Books We Meant Well How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People by Peter Van BurenComing Soon! Washington Rules America’s Path to Permanent War by Andrew BacevichNow available! Dismantling The Empire America’s Last Best Hope by Chalmers Johnson Now available! The Limits Of Power The End of [...]
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May 26, 2011
There is Much More to Say Noam Chomsky ZNet, May 2011 After the assassination of bin Laden I received such a deluge of requests for comment that I was unable to respond individually, and on May 4 and later I sent an unedited form response instead, not intending for it to be posted, and expecting [...]
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Much More To Say. A post Bin Laden Death article by Noam Chomsky
There is Much More to Say Noam Chomsky ZNet, May 2011 After the assassination of bin Laden I received such a deluge of requests for comment that I was unable to respond individually, and on May 4 and later I sent an unedited form response instead, not intending for it to be posted, and expecting [...]
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