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Chomsky: Immigrant Civil Rights Movement
Blog Post, April, 11 2006
Noam Chomsky
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Z Sustainer question: Have you been following the new explosion of activism on the immigration issue? It's a really exciting time to live in Tucson. I've been involved in this issue for over 6 years and I've never seen anything like it...
Chomsky: The US, Israel & Hamas
Blog Post, February, 21 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Z Sustainer question: Do you think the US/Israeli position of refusing aid/relations with the PA under Hamas is likely to have the effect of making Hamas take a more radical uncompromising stance vis-a-vis Fatah and Israel? If so, do you think thi...
Chomsky: An Exercise in Terrorism: Theirs or Ours
Blog Post, February, 09 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Suppose that Al-Qaeda destroyed half the pharmaceutical supplies in some country where people matter -- say the US, or Israel, etc. Would we regard it as an act of terrorism? They could claim they had no intent to harm anyone, they jus...
Chomsky: The US Invasion of Afghanistan
Blog Post, February, 09 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
[There was a transcription error in the earlier presentation here - corrected now] ...[T]he invasion was not undertaken to overthrow the Taliban. That was an afterthought, added after three weeks of bombing. A [main thing to con...
Chomsky: Official Definitions of Terrorism
Blog Post, February, 02 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
[Editorial Note:] The US Code for defining an "act of terrorism" is an activity that -- (A) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any State, or that woul...
Chomsky: Propaganda
Blog Post, January, 02 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Usage of the term "propaganda" is interesting. ...it's much like "terrorism." Before World War II, the term was freely used in English in its literal sense, and its use (by business and properly chosen governments) was considered highly meritori...
Chomsky: Ahmadinejad & Iranian Nuclear Weapons
Blog Post, January, 02 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Ahmadinejad seems to be something of a loose cannon, and he's apparently making the religious conservatives who are the real power pretty nervous. They've stripped the presidency of some of its powers and transferred them to his main rival Rafsanj...
Chomsky: Iraq and Iran
Blog Post, December, 20 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
It's pretty clear that the major Shiite parties have pretty close links with Iran. The Badr brigades, which control large parts of the south were trained there. A majority of the influential clerics come from there (including Sistani). And l...
Chomsky: The Plame Affair
Blog Post, November, 28 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
[C]rucial issues are not being discussed, and are not even thinkable. But there's nothing new about that. I'm constantly shocked to hear, even from critics, about the bravery of the media in exposing the crimes of Vietnam, or Watergate, or other...
Chomsky: The Guardian Smear & Silencing Dissent
Blog Post, November, 21 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The evidence of editorial planning is overwhelming. Just consider the layout, the highly selective photos designed for defamation (which took plenty of careful work and planning), the lies and deceit in the captions, etc. Furthermore, it's obv...
Chomsky: US Withdrawl from Iraq
Blog Post, November, 18 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Surveys in Iraq are quite difficult because the invasion and occupation have created a catastrophe that is virtually without parallel. I can't think of another war where journalists had to stay pretty much within a heavily fortified zone or tra...
Chomsky: The US, Venezuela & Columbia
Blog Post, October, 30 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
In Venezuela, the US has tried even more drastic measures, like supporting a military coup that (briefly) overthrew the democratically elected government in 2002. The US had to back down in the face of enormous protest in Latin America, where d...
Chomsky: US Failure in Iraq & Iraqi Opinion on Withdrawal
Blog Post, October, 30 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
I'd suggest rethinking the term "failure." In occupied Europe, the Nazis were extremely successful. They imposed client governments which ran the countries including the security forces, with Germany always in the background, but not much involve...
Chomsky: The US, Israel, & Corporate Power
Blog Post, October, 30 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
It's certainly arguable that the US policy towards Israel-Palestine has not been in the interests of US state-corporate power. That's been argued in the mainstream. I suspect if you did a poll of energy corporation CEOs, that's what you'd hear. ...
Chomsky: Market Principles?
Blog Post, September, 19 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Take the US. In 1750… it was one of the richest societies on earth, but it was, of course, pre-industrial. If it had pursued its comparative advantage in accordance with market principles, it would now be exporting fish, fur, agricultural products...
Chomsky: The Bush Administration and Fascism
Blog Post, September, 04 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
…The Bush administration (like the Reagan administration) has a particularly difficult task, and the Bush faction is pretty much a narrow reactionary statist extreme of the Reaganites -- who were a narrow reactionary statist extreme of the narrow ...
Chomsky: The Afghanistan Food Crisis
Blog Post, September, 04 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
I plead guilty of failing to write anything at all about this at the time when it mattered, or even to mention it except in some scattered interviews and a few remarks in talks. That failure was deplorable, since the threat of bombing, and then th...
Chomsky: Implementation of UN Resolutions
Blog Post, August, 25 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
States that practice torture, slavery, brutal oppression of women, child labor, and other crimes were not condemned when these were standard practices. Same with ethnic cleansing, conquest, destruction of societies under imperial domination, et...
Chomsky: The Lancet Study
Blog Post, August, 07 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
It's correct that the Lancet study, by far the most authoritative available, deliberately excluded Fallujah, because that would have raised the estimates much higher -- recall that as in all scientific inquiries in related areas (technically, anyw...
Chomsky: The Official 911 Story
Blog Post, August, 07 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The simple reason why I presume that the official story is probably true is that it seems to me by far the most credible one. I've explained why in earlier posts, and also why the whole matter is very far from high priority for me. Since there ...
