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Peterson: War-Era Mass Grave Found Near Sarajevo
Blog Post, August, 11 2004
David Peterson
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Okay. Last Saturday's Chicago Tribune (Aug. 7) published a Getty/AFP photo by Elvis Barukcic on the upper-lefthand corner of Sect. 1, p. 3, along with the following caption: War-era mass grave found near Sarajevo A forensic expert collects human r...
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...
Schwartz: The April Uprising in Falluja
Zmag Article, August, 01 2004
Michael Schwartz
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I n late April, the U.S. ended its effort to forcibly reconquer Falluja and brought to an end the April uprising there. For almost a month, perhaps 2,000 insurgents had fought an often pitch...
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 ...
Schwartz: IS THE IRAQI INTERIM ADMINISTRATION CRACKING DOWN ON CRIME?
Znet Article, July, 18 2004
Michael Schwartz
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IS THE IRAQI INTERIM ADMINISTRATION CRACKING DOWN ON CRIME?
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
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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
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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 ...
Schwartz: BUSH MAY BE AN ELECTORAL LOSER
Znet Article, July, 02 2004
Michael Schwartz
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BUSH MAY BE AN ELECTORAL LOSER
Schwartz: Who's Sovereign Now?
Znet Article, June, 17 2004
Michael Schwartz
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Who's Sovereign Now?
Jamail: Control of Security Forces
Znet Article, June, 14 2004
Dahr Jamail
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Baghdad , Jun 14 - Even as authorities for the US-run occupation cede a greater share of security responsibilities to Iraqi forces, spokespeople for the Iraqi police and paramilitaries in many areas of the war-torn country say they lack the legiti...
Chomsky: The Reagan Era
Znet Article, June, 11 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
With regard to the political system, the Reagan era represents a significant advance in capitalist democracy. For eight years, the U.S. government functioned vir...
Chomsky: Interview with Noam Chomsky
Znet Article, June, 11 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Oldenburg: In one chapter of your book Understanding Power - recently published in Germany under the title Eine Anatomie der Macht - you describe an interview situation in Canada. The interviewer got angry, cause you started criticizing Cana...
Chomsky: India Today
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
It's important to bear in mind that there are two quite different Indias. There is the high tech India in Hyderabad, which Thomas Friedman raves about in his odes to "globalization" -- meaning, the neoliberal version of investor-rights-based int...
Chomsky: Turkey in the World
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Turkey's human rights record has been awful, though it has been improving, as commentators routinely point out. But that overlooks a rather important fact: Turkey's crimes against its own population, particularly Kurds, rely crucially on (1) massi...
Chomsky: The SU and the Arms Race
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Questioner: Given that the arms race was a disaster for the Soviet Union economically and of little advantage militarily, why did the USSR engage in it? What it did to them economically is exactly what Khrushchev predicted, and presumably what JF...
