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Chomsky: Millennial Visions and Selective Vision Part One
Commentary, January, 10 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The new year opened with familiar refrains, amplified by the numerology: a chorus of self-adulation, somber ruminations about the incomprehensible evil of our enemies, and the usual recourse to selective amnesia to smooth the way. A few illustrati...
Chomsky: East Timor Is Not Yesterday's Story
Commentary, October, 23 1999
Noam Chomsky
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According to recent reports, the UN mission in East Timor has been able to account for just over 150,000 people out of an estimated population of 850,000. It reports that 260,000 "are now languishing in squalid refugee camps in West Timor under...
Chomsky: East Timor
Commentary, October, 04 1999
Noam Chomsky
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The events of the past weeks in East Timor should elicit shame as well as horror. The crimes could easily have been stopped.
Chomsky: World Order and its Rules
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Noam Chomsky
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Chomsky Despite the desperate efforts of ideologues to prove that circles are square, there is no serious doubt that the NATO bombings further undermine what remains of the fragile structure of international law. The U.S. made that clear in th...
Chomsky: East Timor Questions & Answers
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Noam Chomsky
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Stephen R. Shalom, Noam Chomsky, & Michael Albert This issue of Z was being prepared as the situation worsened in East Timor. The following Q&A is intended to give readers background information on the situation and U.S. interests in the area....
Chomsky: East Timor Questions & Answers
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Noam Chomsky
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Stephen R. Shalom, Noam Chomsky, & Michael Albert This issue of Z was being prepared as the situation worsened in East Timor. The following Q&A is intended to give readers background information on the situation and U.S. interests in the area....
Chomsky: Eight Question on Kibbutzim: Answers from Noam Chomsky Questions from Nikos Raptis
Commentary, August, 24 1999
Noam Chomsky
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The origins were in part European libertarian socialist thought. In part they were in a kind of romantic "back to the land" movement, suffused sometimes with Tolstoyan anarchism, in other cases part of a (very conscious) effort to reverse the "inv...
Chomsky: Moral Principles and International Law
Commentary, May, 09 1999
Noam Chomsky
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I'm afraid the first question is not a "genuine question," though there is a huge literature, for thousands of years, attempting to say at least something about these topics, without much success.
Chomsky: Crisis in the Balkans
Zmag Article, May, 01 1999
Noam Chomsky
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Crisis in the Balkans
Chomsky: A Farewell to Oscar
Commentary, March, 17 1999
Noam Chomsky
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On March 11, Oskar Lafontaine resigned his position as German Finance Minister and chair of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). His resignation elicited "euphoria" in "jubilant" financial markets, editorial offices, and news rooms.
Chomsky: On Staying Informed and Inteelectual Self Defense
Commentary, March, 08 1999
Noam Chomsky
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There's no way to be informed without devoting effort to the task, whether we have in mind what's happening in the world, physics, major league baseball, or anything else.
Chomsky: Hordes of Vigilantes & Popular elements defeat MAI, for now
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky This is a follow-up to my article on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) in the May issue. That went to press a few weeks before the April 27 target date for signing of the MAI by the OECD coun...
Chomsky: Domestic Constituencies
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Noam Chomsky
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Domestic Constituencies
Chomsky: Rogue States
Zmag Article, April, 01 1998
Noam Chomsky
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The concept of "rogue state" plays a pre-eminent role today in policy planning and analysis. The current Iraq crisis is only the latest example. Washington and London declared Iraq a "rogue state," a threat ...
Chomsky: Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality
Chomsky: What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
Zmag Article, October, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky Part of the reason why I write about the media is because I am interested in the whole intellectual culture, and the part of it that is easiest to study is the media. It comes out every day. You can d...
Chomsky: Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky I have been asked to speak on some aspect of academic or human freedom, an invitation that offers many choices. I will keep to some simple ones. Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gift, and...
Chomsky: Expanding the Floor of the Cage, Part IIl
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is of timeless importance. This one was first published June, 1997.
Chomsky: The Passion for Free Markets
Zmag Article, May, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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For more than half a century, the United Nations has been the main forum for the United States to try to create a world in its image, maneuvering with its allies ...
Chomsky: Expanding the Floor of the Cage, Part II
Zmag Article, April, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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As far as I know Clinton and Dole are moderate Republicans, more or less interchangeable representatives of the business community, old-time government insiders. Maybe there were personality differences. They have somewhat different constituencies...
