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Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival Part One
Commentary, July, 03 2001
Noam Chomsky
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At the end of June,, the UN Conference on Disarmament concludes the second of its year 2001 sessions. Prospects for any constructive outcome of disarmament efforts are slim. Discussions have been blocked by US insistence on pursuing ballistic miss...
Chomsky: Voting Patterns and Abstentions
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
In commenting on the November 2000 elections (Z January), I only hinted at important considerations that lend further insight into the functioning of contemporary democracy: patterns of voting and abstention. Useful information on these matt...
Chomsky: Elections 2000
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Elections 2000
Chomsky: Escaping Orthodoxies
Commentary, December, 31 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
DB: Talk in concrete ways about liberating the mind from orthodoxies. Take for example, humanitarian intervention.
Chomsky: Overcoming Orthodoxies
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Noam Chomsky
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David Barsamian: I want to come back to the idea of what individuals can do in overcoming orthodoxies. Steve Biko, the South African activist who was murdered by the apartheid regime while he was in custody, once said, The most powerful weapon in ...
Chomsky: Propaganda and Indoctrination
Commentary, December, 10 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
This is the first of three Chomsky Commentaries I will send this month...each answers one or more queries from David Barsamian (DB) and all are excerpted from a still to be published interview... DB: Lets talk about a theme that we return to peri...
Chomsky: Al-Aqsa Intifida
Commentary, October, 26 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
After three weeks of virtual war in the Israeli occupied territories, Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced a new plan to determine the final status of the region. During these weeks, over 100 Palestinians were killed, including 30 children, often b...
Chomsky: Chomsky Comments on Milosevic Ouster, etc.
Commentary, October, 12 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
A number of people in the ZNet forum system and elsewhere have raised questions about the prominent role they see assigned to US-NATO in the flood of commentary on recent events in Yugoslavia, "gloating over the victory of the opposition in Yugosl...
Chomsky: none
Zmag Article, October, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Common Courage Press Review by Michael Hardesty For a couple of months in the spring and summer of 1999 many western liberals thought they were reliving the glorious days of World War II—the good war—as the social democrats...
Chomsky: Summits
Commentary, September, 17 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The United Nations Summit in New York in September was the second major gathering of government leaders marking the millennium. The first was the South Summit in Havana in April. The UN Summit received considerable national publicity, while the So...
Chomsky: "Peace Process" Prospects
Commentary, July, 27 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The latest AP report from Camp David (evening, July 25) begins: "The Middle East peace talks at Camp David collapsed Tuesday over rival claims to East Jerusalem. Disappointed, President Clinton said he tried several approaches but could not come u...
Chomsky: National Missile Defense
Commentary, July, 20 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Taking into account the results of the recent test, should President Clinton ask the Pentagon to go ahead with the national missile defense system?I would prefer to respond to a slight reformulation of the question. The most hopeful prospect for t...
Chomsky: Humanitarian Intervention
Commentary, July, 05 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
At a public talk in February Chomsky was asked: "President Clinton recently said the U.S. has the right on humanitarian grounds to intervene, with force, in any country which it deems is abusing the human rights of its citizens. Do you agree ...
Chomsky: Credibility
Commentary, June, 16 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
At a talk earlier this year, Chomsky was asked -- "KosovoÑwhat are the interests driving intervention? What do you foresee for the people of the region?"
Chomsky: The Colombia Plan: April 2000
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
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In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of U.S. military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). The figure is scheduled to increase sharply with the anticipa...
Chomsky: Unsustainable Non Development
Commentary, May, 30 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
At a recent talk Chomsky was asked ÒWhat are the motivations of the U.S. push for sustainable development in the developing world?Ó Here was his answerÉ
Chomsky: Assaulting Solidarity -- Privatizing Education
Commentary, May, 12 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
There has been a general assault in the last 25 years on solidarity, democracy, social welfare, anything that interferes with private power, and there are many targets. One of the targets is undoubtedly the educational system. In fact, a couple of...
Chomsky: In Retrospect
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The absurdity of the principle of retrospective justification is, surely, recognized at some level. Accordingly, many attempts to justify the NATO bombing take a different tack. One typical version is that “Serbia assaulted ...
Chomsky: Colombia Ð Part Two of Two
Commentary, April, 25 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The sharp increase in arms shipped to Colombia is officially justified in terms of the "drug war," a claim taken seriously by few competent analysts, even apart from the instructive historical pattern, barely sampled here. As many have observed, t...
Chomsky: Colombia – Part Two of Two
Commentary, April, 25 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The sharp increase in arms shipped to Colombia is officially justified in terms of the "drug war," a claim taken seriously by few competent analysts, even apart from the instructive historical pattern, barely sampled here. As many have observed, t...
