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Chomsky: Public Expense & Private Profit
Blog Post, December, 27 2004
Noam Chomsky
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For computers, the period from development to commercially viable sales was about 30 years (depending on how you count). For the internet, it was also about 30 years within the state system before it was handed over, by a process that remains obs...
Street: Bush's Christmas Budget: Guns Over Butter
Blog Post, December, 24 2004
Paul Street
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Tomorrow morning and afternoon, I expect, George and Laura and mom and fellow war criminal Dad and the twins and Jeb and the rest of the misbegotten hyper-aristocratic and necrophyilic Bush brood will open presents and enjoy a sumptous meal prepar...
Street: "There's Nothing You Can Do"
Blog Post, December, 23 2004
Paul Street
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It's always nice to hear that considerable numbers of Americans tell nice and progressive things to public opinion pollsters. But when I see the happy data showing that the United States populace supports peace, justice, and democracy, not emp...
Albert: A Sporting Revolution: The Parecon Hockey League
Blog Post, December, 20 2004
Michael Albert
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I reeived this in Email. It is a short essay by Kim Peterson. Relevant here, more so than on the main site, I think. Up to now, there is no National Hockey League (NHL) fare for ice hockey aficionados. The public NHL players and behind-the-scenes...
Chomsky: Bakunin, the death penalty & seeds of the future
Blog Post, December, 20 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Bakunin's point was, I think, pretty simple. Within the larger society, it is possible to build structures that capture hopes for the future. For example, free schools, or self-managed cooperatives (like South End press, or worker-run factories ...
Chomsky: Vietnam then, Iraq today
Blog Post, December, 20 2004
Noam Chomsky
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We can learn a lot from what happened in Vietnam. Protest was very slow in developing. By the time it reached a significant scale in 1967, the highly respected (and rather hawkish) military historian and Vietnam specialist Bernard Fall was won...
Chomsky: US-UK relations
Blog Post, December, 16 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The general contours are pretty clear. The US effectively displaced Britain as world-dominant power during World War II, quite consciously -- there were mini-wars going on right through the conflict, and they continued afterwards, often in ugly w...
Chomsky: The Draft
Blog Post, December, 16 2004
Noam Chomsky
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My guess is that the Bush administration planners will not call for a draft. The military command, and the civilian leadership, learned an important lesson in Vietnam: you can't expect a citizen's army to fight a vicious, brutal colonial war. ...
Street: The Manly Scent of The Hummer
Blog Post, December, 16 2004
Paul Street
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I know a young lady in Chicago who has a curious reaction whenever she sees a HUMMER while driving in the city: she raises her middle finger and screams "go to Hell you rich gas-guzzling imperialist pig" at the top of her lungs. She's about 5 fo...
Pandya: Seamless Transitions
Blog Post, December, 15 2004
Cp Pandya
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Quick note from Corporate World about one politician's seamless transition into the drug world. It doesn't get more slimy than this folks. It's quite an endearing tale, actually; one that will surely reverberate in the halls of infamy: It's a sto...
Street: "To Counter the Enemy's Perception Management"
Blog Post, December, 14 2004
Paul Street
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Today's prize for bad Orwellian prose goes to chief Pentagon spokesman, Lawrence Di Rita. "In the battle of perception management, where the enemy is clearly using the media to help manage perceptions of the general public," Di Rita says in today...
Podur: Gaza Explosion
Blog Post, December, 13 2004
Justin Podur
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Media will dutifully be reporting the deaths of five Israeli soldiers -- though some media are calling them simply 'Israelis', not specifying that they are soldiers -- in a Palestinian armed attack at a military checkpoint in Rafah. Israelis have...
Podur: Gaza Explosion
Blog Post, December, 13 2004
Justin Podur
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Media will dutifully be reporting the deaths of five Israeli soldiers -- though some media are calling them simply 'Israelis', not specifying that they are soldiers -- in a Palestinian armed attack at a military checkpoint in Rafah. Israelis have...
Chomsky: State Terror v.s. Resistance
Blog Post, December, 06 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Of course, the sentiment will seem outlandish to those who take it for granted that we are entirely justified in grinding people under our jackboot, using violence to impose conditions in which the resources of a country are freely open to exploit...
Chomsky: Speculation on Occupation
Blog Post, December, 06 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Will the effort succeed? I certainly have no basis for predicting, if only because I've been wrong about this all along. My guess was that the "war" would take a few days. To my surprise, it lasted much longer, so much so that in the first few...
Chomsky: Capitalism, an innovative and viable system?
Blog Post, December, 06 2004
Noam Chomsky
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First, nothing remotely like capitalism exists. Is the US economy, relying crucially on the dynamic state sector, a capitalist economy? But putting that aside, was it an argument in the 18th century to say that feudalism, absolutism, rule by King...
Podur: The Bush visit to Canada
Blog Post, December, 02 2004
Justin Podur
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Back from Ottawa. A couple more notes (previous blog on the demos). One, the estimates are out on numbers and I don't believe them. Sure, protesters exaggerate the numbers but I've never felt such a discrepancy. I have decent footage, standing at...
Podur: The Bush visit to Canada
Blog Post, December, 02 2004
Justin Podur
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Back from Ottawa. A couple more notes (previous blog on the demos). One, the estimates are out on numbers and I don't believe them. Sure, protesters exaggerate the numbers but I've never felt such a discrepancy. I have decent footage, standing at...
Chomsky: Striking Iran
Blog Post, December, 01 2004
Noam Chomsky
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My guess is that the US will not attack Iran, either directly or via Israeli mercenary pilots flying US aircraft (which would be called an Israeli attack). We do know that in the past year the US has provided over 100 advanced jet bombers to Is...
Podur: Iraqi Elections Delay
Blog Post, November, 27 2004
Justin Podur
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So the US and the Iraqi political parties it is sponsoring want to delay elections. Readers who follow this link will be impressed by the hypocrisy. Every story you read about Iraq now seems to have an obligatory feature about how many bodies the ...
