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Chomsky: A Personal Statement RE Z/ZNet
Blog Post, September, 27 2004
Noam Chomsky
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"We live in an era of media concentration, vast efforts on many fronts (political, economic, military, ideological) to insulate state and private power from critical discussion or even popular awareness, and to reduce citizens to isolated atomized...
Chomsky: Bombing Cambodia
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The US was bombing South Vietnam very intensively from the early 60s, and many people, and South Vietnamese resistance forces, fled to border areas, sometimes spilling over to border areas of Cambodia. So in that sense there were "VC installati...
Chomsky: Fascism
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The term "fascism," like terms of political discourse generally, is used in a great variety of ways and has no clear and explicit meaning. Mussolini's Fascism, the first explicit one, was a kind of state-corporatism, which crushed labor and dest...
Chomsky: Bush & Kerry Differences
Blog Post, September, 20 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The most uncontroversial differences have to do with the large majority of the population of the United States. For example, those who will have to bear the burdens of essentially freeing the rich from taxes and other social responsibilities. Or o...
Chomsky: Global Perception of the US Election:
Blog Post, September, 20 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
I doubt that most people abroad care whether Bush is an idiot, a trained actor, or a genius who is pulling all the strings. They care about the policies of his administration. That is what has led to the astonishing increase in fear and dislike of...
Chomsky: The Resort to Force
Znet Article, September, 16 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The Resort to Force
Chomsky: Advocacy and Realism
Znet Article, August, 26 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Advocacy and Realism
Chomsky: Civilizing Aristide
Blog Post, August, 23 2004
Noam Chomsky
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My own judgment, for what it is worth, is that [Aristide] came into office committed to the kind of significant social and economic reform that was called for by his popular constituency in the hills and slums, desperately needed in Haiti. His ...
Chomsky: Attack on Democracy
Blog Post, August, 23 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The standard doctrine -- preached by Alan Greenspan, any number of economists, and commentators commonly -- that the marvellous "new economy" is a tribute to "entrepreneurial initiative," "consumer choice," and other free market wonders does not s...
Chomsky: Globalization
Blog Post, August, 15 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Used neutrally, the term "globalization" just refers to international integration. Virtually no one is opposed to that, certainly not the left or the workers movements, which from their modern origins have been committed to international solidar...
Chomsky: Refuting Horowitz and Collier
Blog Post, August, 11 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
To refute the criticisms[...] is trivial, and worth doing for only one reason. It teaches us something important: by even bothering to refute the criticisms, we are granting the critics a great gift, exactly what they want, and are falling into a ...
Chomsky: Moral Truisms
Blog Post, August, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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There is no doubt that people have moral intuitions, and research -- serious research is in very early stages -- reveals that they are quite uniform without experience in complex situations, and in many ways surprising. There is little reason t...
Chomsky: Controlling the Middle East
Blog Post, August, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Controlling the region means being in a position to have a significant effect of decisions that are taken there, particularly with regard to production levels, price range (not to high, not too low), distribution (e.g., where pipelines go), etc. N...
Chomsky: Policy Spectrum
Znet Article, August, 01 2004
Noam Chomsky
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MIT Professor Noam Chomsky is one of the world's most perceptive social critics. I had the opportunity recently to ask him some questions concerning a range of subject matter. Professor Chomsky's latest book is Hegemony or Survival: America's ...
Chomsky: An Independent Iraq
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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For what it's worth, polls in Iraq reveal very considerable and apparently growing support for withdrawal of the US occupying army, apart from the Kurdish regions. That doesn't mean withdrawal tomorrow. No one is talking about that, and it isn't...
Chomsky: Peak Oil Theory
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The basic theory is incontrovertible. The only questions have to do with timing and cost. ... The date can be pushed back much farther if more costly (or maybe some to-be-discovered improved) technology is used. As for the estimates of cost, by r...
Chomsky: Iran's Threat
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The sharp increase in focus on Iran's alleged threat (nuclear weapons, connections to terror, etc.) is very clear. ... The same has been true with regard to Syria (including last December's "Syria Accountability Act" passed almost unanimously in ...
Chomsky: Invading Cuba
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Cuba was officially regarded as a security threat to the US until 1998, and when the Pentagon decided that maybe the US could survive a Cuban assault, the Clinton administration insisted that the threat must be defined as "negligible," but still r...
Chomsky: The Wall and Israel's Aims
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
If the goal were security, Israel would have built the fence a few km inside its borders. It could then be a mile high, patrolled on both sides by the IDF, mined with nuclear weapons, utterly impenetrable. Perfect security. The problem would be ...
Chomsky: Classified Documents
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The scheduled release of declassified documents in the official State Department history is 30 years. In practice it is a bit longer, about 35 years or so usually. Of course, not everything is declassified. Sometimes it turns out on independent ...
