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Chomsky: Defeating Nazi...
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Questioner: The U.S. opposed and defeated the Nazis and the Communists. Doesn't this evidence U.S. humanitarianism for the rest of the world? The "history" assumed in this argument is so radically and uncontroversially false that it is hard even ...
Chomsky: Oil Prices
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Regarding the rising price of oil, the first point to remember is that the price of oil is not high by historical standards. I haven't seen an exact calculation, but I wouldn't be surprised if the real price per barrel is maybe half of what it w...
Chomsky: Trade?
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Questioner: In a debate I had with a capitalist once, he asserted that most US investment occurs in European and developed Asian countries, saying that that means that free trade is beneficial. Your reaction? He's right that most Foreign Direct I...
Chomsky: Rising Boats?
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Questioner: Frequently, when conservatives respond to allegations of inequality in capitalism, they say that "The boats are all rising, who cares if the tide carries some higher?" That is, if growth is occurring at some rate, capitalism's good. Wh...
Chomsky: Bush Lying?
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Did Bush lie on the reasons for 9-11 ("they hate our freedoms," etc.)? I think one has to be a bit cautious. Lying requires a certain competence: at least, it requires an understanding of the difference between truth and falsehood. When a 3-year...
Chomsky: Doctrines And Visions: Who Is To Run The World, And How?
Znet Article, June, 07 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
We have just passed the first anniversary of the President's declaration of victory in Iraq. I won't speak about what is happening on the ground. There is more than enough information about that, and we can draw our own conclusions. I will just me...
Chomsky: Humanitarian Interventions?
Blog Post, May, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
I won't run through the details regarding Somalia since you can find a lot in print, right at the time and later. Steve Shalom had a fine article about it at the time in Z; I wrote about it right away in Z too. More later, after other facts drib...
Chomsky: South Africa Style Sanctions Against Israel?
Blog Post, May, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
I think there are many reasons why the South African analogy does not apply to this case. One, commonly overlooked, is that sanctions against South Africa did not become a really significant issue with a major impact until after years of educati...
Chomsky: Transfer Real Sovereignty
Blog Post, May, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population. It follows that the orders issued by Proconsul Bremer are...
Chomsky: Rwanda and Abu Ghraib
Blog Post, May, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The past month was the 10th anniversary of the massacres in Rwanda, and there was much soul-searching about our failure to do anything about them. So headlines read "To Say `Never Again' and Mean it; the 1994 Rwandan genocide should have taught us...
Chomsky: The Occupation
Blog Post, May, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The occupation of Iraq has been an astonishing failure. It should have been one of the easiest in history. The more serious correspondents there are well aware of that. Patrick Cockburn recently wrote that "It has been one of the most extraordi...
Chomsky: South Africa, Israel-Palestine, and the Contours of the Contemporary World Order
Znet Article, May, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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On behalf of Safundi, Christopher J. Lee interviewed Professor Noam Chomsky on March 9, 2004, in his office at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They spoke on the occasion of the tenth anniver...
Chomsky: The Iraq Occupation
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Typically, military occupations are quite successful, even by the most horrendous conquerors. Take, say, Hitler's occupation of Western Europe and Russia's postwar occupation of Eastern Europe. In both cases, the countries were run by collaborato...
Chomsky: Iraq Controversy in Perspective
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The whole front-page controversy is, in my opinion, not only diversionary but a real tribute to the success of indoctrination. There is a simple point that seems obvious to Iraqis, but is unmentionable here in the mainstream: the conquest of Iraq,...
Chomsky: Justice for Palestine?
Znet Article, March, 30 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
1. What do you see as the best solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict? It depends what time frame we have in mind. In the short term, the only feasible and minimally decent solution is along the lines of the international consensus that the US ...
Chomsky: Tempest Interviews Chomsky
Znet Article, March, 21 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Tempest Interviews Chomsky
Chomsky: Understanding March 29
Blog Post, March, 20 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
I spoke at a demo of about 20,000 people in Vancouver, very enthusiastic and engaged, and as far as I could tell, inspired to go on. Also to audiences of several thousands, which seemed the same. The pre-war demonstrations were without historical...
Chomsky: Mahajan's Addition
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
In his blog, linked from the ZNet blogs, Rahul Mahajan of Empire Notes writes: In Chomsky's latest post, he's responding to someone advancing the standard humanitarian/liberation argument for the war on Iraq. At one point, he says The invasion o...
Chomsky: Mideast Solutions
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
[This is the first question and answer in a lengthy interview conducted by Justin Podur and Stephen Shalom -- it will appear in the May issue of Z] 1. What do you see as the best solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict? It depends what time f...
