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Chomsky: The Social Security Non-Crisis
Znet Article, June, 18 2005
Noam Chomsky
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In the debate over Social Security, US President Bush’s handlers have already won, at least in the short term. Bush and Karl Rove, his deputy chief of staff, have succeeded in convincing most of the US population that there is a serious pr...
Chomsky: "Deep Throat" & COINTELPRO
Blog Post, June, 17 2005
Noam Chomsky
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The fact that you hadn't heard of COINTELPRO -- and that there isn't a word about it in the current "Deep Throat" coverage -- tells us quite a lot about the dominant moral and political culture. COINTELPRO was a program of the national politica...
Chomsky: An End to Capitalism?
Blog Post, June, 01 2005
Noam Chomsky
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The state-corporate system is quite remote from anything that might be called "capitalism" or a "market system," though it has elements of both. This system will doubtless continue to change, as it has in the past. The recent global investor-righ...
Chomsky: Opposing the Vietnam War
Blog Post, May, 24 2005
Noam Chomsky
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It's not physics, so one has to put together a circumstantial case. I've written about the way it looks to me. In brief, the war was always unpopular, even when Kennedy launched it in 1962. That's why he hoped that US forces could withdraw -- AF...
Chomsky: The Pentagon Papers
Blog Post, May, 18 2005
Noam Chomsky
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All four volumes have plenty of material on the war against South Vietnam (which of course they call the "defense of South Vietnam"). There is more in the 17 volumes released shortly after by Congress, and a lot more in the State Department docu...
Chomsky: Costa Rican Democracy & CAFTA
Blog Post, May, 18 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Why did the US tolerate Costa Rican democracy, even social democracy, a pattern so radically different from the rest of the region? It's a question that interested me a great deal in the 1980s, in the context of the US wars in Central America, an...
Chomsky: State and Corp.
Znet Article, May, 18 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Q: We want to talk about the two dominant power structures of the modern era: the national state and the transnational corporations. The first question is, could you please talk about the rise of this concept of the national state: Why was it crea...
Chomsky: Academic Freedom & and Systems of Power
Blog Post, May, 10 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Take Latin American studies. There's a professional association (LASA) and many outstanding specialists. In the 1980s, Central America, particularly Nicaragua, was the Big Story. After all, we even had a National Emergency called by the brave...
Chomsky: Privatization of Services, the "Free Market" & Democracy
Blog Post, May, 10 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Privatization of "services" (water for example) is both for corporate profit and for undermining democracy. In both cases, virtually by definition. Thus such privatization removes matters of crucial public concern from the public arena, where t...
Chomsky: Oil for Food, Propaganda and the US-UK Sanctions
Blog Post, May, 04 2005
Noam Chomsky
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I have no doubt that the US-UK are very indignant that there is at least some marginal recognition of the truth. In this morning's (April 24) NY Times, for example, in an article by Warren Hoge. "There is no question that the bulk of the illicit...
Chomsky: Global Dominance: Oil vs. The State
Blog Post, April, 13 2005
Noam Chomsky
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…Big Oil and the state often conflict -- and the very same individuals make different decisions when they are working within the industry and when they are running the State Department -- which is concerned not with the short-term parochial intere...
Chomsky: "Doctrinal Fiction's" of Free Trade, Debt and Deficit's
Blog Post, April, 13 2005
Noam Chomsky
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…The US multinational establishment never favored free-trade. The economy relies very heavily on a dynamic state sector to socialize cost and risk, a radical violation of market principles. The Uruguay Round (WTO) rules crucially include extreme...
Chomsky: On Globalization, Iraq, and Middle East Studies
Znet Article, March, 29 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Danilo Mandic: Could I please get your views on the recent World Social Forum that was held a few months ago in Porto Allegre, Brazil. Over 150,000 people from 135 countries participated, an unprecedented number; and they covered a wide range of i...
Chomsky: Washington's "Culture of Terrorism" in El Salvador
Blog Post, March, 01 2005
Noam Chomsky
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In brief, the US-run terrorist war devastated the society, leading to a truce of exhaustion -- and what the Jesuits, at least those who survived Washington's war against the Church -- called a residual "culture of terrorism that domesticates the a...
Chomsky: Conspiracies vs. Concentrations of Wealth & Power
Blog Post, March, 01 2005
Noam Chomsky
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There are careful studies (Kolko, Barnet, others) that provide details about what is pretty obvious on the surface: the executive is largely staffed by representatives of private power concentrations, law firms that cater to their interests, outsi...
Chomsky: Backing Down to Iraqi Nonviolence
Blog Post, March, 01 2005
Noam Chomsky
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It has been compelled to accept elections, to accept the defeat of its chosen favorite, to allow Iraqis to write a constitution. The state of the outrageous and illegal economic conditions imposed by the CPA is uncertain. A leading plank of the wi...
Chomsky: The Vietnam "Virus"
Blog Post, March, 01 2005
Noam Chomsky
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The issue that concerned planners from the 1950s was the usual one: independent nationalism in Vietnam might prove successful in terms meaningful to others in the region facing similar problems, and the "virus" might spread, "infecting" others, in...
Chomsky: Nuclear Terror at Home
Znet Article, March, 01 2005
Noam Chomsky
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If you can imagine some rational observers from Mars looking at this curious species down here, I don't think they'd put very high odds on survival--another generation or two. In fact, it's kind of miraculous that we've come along this far. The w...
Chomsky: Motivations for Terror
Blog Post, February, 16 2005
Noam Chomsky
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It's certainly necessary to make distinctions, and to try to understand motivations -- not just of Palestinian suicide bombers, and bin Laden, but also of the communities from which they come and who they are addressing. On motivations, grievance...
Chomsky: US-Israel Strategic Relations
Blog Post, February, 16 2005
Noam Chomsky
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...There are real US-Israel conflicts, but they are not being reported in the US (they are in Israel). An important one right now is the conflict over Israel's efforts to sell advanced military technology to China (Harpy drones), to which the US i...
