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Chomsky: Electoral Realities
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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About half the population doesn't bother to vote. The voters are heavily skewed towards the wealthy and privileged, who tend to vote for the more reactionary of the two factions of the business party. That's of course not enough for the Republic...
Chomsky: Modalities of Withdrawal
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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On the modality of withdrawal, we should seek as best we can to determine the wishes of the Iraqi people. It's not easy to determine the opinions of people under military occupation, and though there are many western-run polls, they tend to evad...
Chomsky: Structural Adjustment
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
What can we do about it? Just about everything. The IMF is hardly more than a branch of the Treasury Department. Economist Jagdish Bhagwati, no radical, refers to the IMF- Treasury-Wall St complex that is a core part of de facto world governmen...
Chomsky: Bush's Economics
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Whether Bush believes, or even understands, the economic policies of his administration I have no idea, and it really doesn't matter much. What's important are the policies, not whether Bush understands what his handlers instruct him to say. The...
Chomsky: Welcome
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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This blog will include brief comments on diverse topics of concern in our time. They will sometimes come from the ZNet Sustainer Forum System where Noam interacts through a forum of his own, sometimes from direct submissions, sometimes culled from...
Chomsky: Welcome
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
This blog will include brief comments on diverse topics of concern in our time. They will sometimes come from the ZNet Sustainer Forum System where Noam interacts through a forum of his own, sometimes from direct submissions, sometimes culled from...
Chomsky: US-Haiti
Znet Article, March, 09 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Those who have any concern for Haiti will naturally want to understand how its most recent tragedy has been unfolding. And for those who have had the privilege of any contact with the people of this tor...
Chomsky: A Wall as a Weapon
Znet Article, February, 23 2004
Noam Chomsky
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It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else. Careful scrutiny is always in order. Israel's so-called security fence, which is the subject of ...
Chomsky: Interviewing Chomsky
Znet Article, January, 28 2004
Noam Chomsky
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[Note: Evan Solomon is a reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), where this interview was broadcast. HotType is a book review/interview program] Nobody we ever talked to on HotType provoked such controversy - both lavish p...
Chomsky: After the War
Znet Article, January, 08 2004
Noam Chomsky
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[Speech delivered at Columbia University, NYC, November 20, 2003, at an event commemorating Edward Said. Transcript courtesy of Democracy Now.] The first remark has to do with the title. The title that was announced was after the war, which...
Chomsky: An interview with Noam Chomsky
Znet Article, January, 02 2004
Noam Chomsky
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- As an opponent to USA policies, which political wing you belong to? If you mean Democrat or Republican, the answer is: Neither. It has often been pointed out by political...
Scahill: The Miami Model
Zmag Article, January, 01 2004
Jeremy Scahill
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W e were loading our video equipment into the trunk of our car when a fleet of bicycle cops sped up and formed a semi-circle around us. The lead cop was Miami police chief John Timoney. The former ...
Chomsky: Selective Memory and False Doctrine
Znet Article, December, 21 2003
Noam Chomsky
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All people who have any concern for human rights, justice and integrity should be overjoyed by the capture of Saddam Hussein, and should be awaiting a fair trial for him by an international tribunal. An indictment of Saddam's atrocities would inc...
Scahill: Oh The LIttle Saddams We Weave
Znet Article, December, 04 2003
Jeremy Scahill
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There is a despot in Iraq, ruling with an iron fist from the comfort of his luxury palace on the banks of the Tigris River. He oversees a ruthless military force and a web of repressive domestic “intelligence†thugs that have terro...
Scahill: The Miami Model
Znet Article, November, 25 2003
Jeremy Scahill
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MIAMI--We were loading our video equipment into the trunk of our car when a fleet of bicycle cops sped up and formed a semi-circle around us. The lead cop was none other than Miami Police Chief John Timoney. The former Police Commissioner of Phila...
Chomsky: The Iraq War and Contempt for Democracy
Commentary, November, 01 2003
Noam Chomsky
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Establishment critics of the war on Iraq restricted their comments regarding the attack to the administration arguments they took to be seriously intended: disarmament, deterrence, and links to terrorism.
Chomsky: Cuba in the cross-hairs:
Znet Article, October, 24 2003
Noam Chomsky
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[In his new book, Hegemony or Survival, America's Quest for Global Dominance, Noam Chomsky continues his powerful analysis of state viole...
Chomsky: Dominance and its Dilemmas*
Znet Article, October, 10 2003
Noam Chomsky
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By The past year has been a momentous one in world affairs. In the normal rhythm, the pattern was set in September, a month marked by several important and closely related events. The most powerful state in history announced a new National Securit...
Chomsky: Radio Havana Interviews Chomsky
Znet Article, September, 04 2003
Noam Chomsky
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Telephone interview by Bernie Dwyer for www.cubadebate.cu with Professor Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 28th August 2003. The agreed theme of the interview was ‘Corporate Journalism’ but, like all good i...
Chomsky: Intellectuals
Znet Article, August, 29 2003
Noam Chomsky
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D: Last year we worked on a seminar, made by the students, called Genealogy of dominion. We studied Max Stirner, Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault, Etienne De la Boetie and Hannah Arendt. I worked on Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own, he...
