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Blog Post Chomsky: Oil Prices

Blog Post, June, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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Regarding the rising price of oil, the first point to remember is that the price of oil is not high by historical standards. I haven't seen an exact calculation, but I wouldn't be surprised if the real price per barrel is maybe half of what it w...

Blog Post Chomsky: Trade?

Blog Post, June, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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Questioner: In a debate I had with a capitalist once, he asserted that most US investment occurs in European and developed Asian countries, saying that that means that free trade is beneficial. Your reaction? He's right that most Foreign Direct I...

Blog Post Chomsky: Rising Boats?

Blog Post, June, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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Questioner: Frequently, when conservatives respond to allegations of inequality in capitalism, they say that "The boats are all rising, who cares if the tide carries some higher?" That is, if growth is occurring at some rate, capitalism's good. Wh...

Blog Post Chomsky: Bush Lying?

Blog Post, June, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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Did Bush lie on the reasons for 9-11 ("they hate our freedoms," etc.)? I think one has to be a bit cautious. Lying requires a certain competence: at least, it requires an understanding of the difference between truth and falsehood. When a 3-year...

Znet Article Chomsky: Doctrines And Visions: Who Is To Run The World, And How?

Znet Article, June, 07 2004 Noam Chomsky
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We have just passed the first anniversary of the President's declaration of victory in Iraq. I won't speak about what is happening on the ground. There is more than enough information about that, and we can draw our own conclusions. I will just me...

Znet Article Chomsky: Bush Doctrine

Znet Article, May, 21 2004 Noam Chomsky
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Bush Doctrine

Blog Post Chomsky: Humanitarian Interventions?

Blog Post, May, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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I won't run through the details regarding Somalia since you can find a lot in print, right at the time and later. Steve Shalom had a fine article about it at the time in Z; I wrote about it right away in Z too. More later, after other facts drib...

Blog Post Chomsky: South Africa Style Sanctions Against Israel?

Blog Post, May, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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I think there are many reasons why the South African analogy does not apply to this case. One, commonly overlooked, is that sanctions against South Africa did not become a really significant issue with a major impact until after years of educati...

Blog Post Chomsky: Transfer Real Sovereignty

Blog Post, May, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population. It follows that the orders issued by Proconsul Bremer are...

Blog Post Chomsky: Rwanda and Abu Ghraib

Blog Post, May, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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The past month was the 10th anniversary of the massacres in Rwanda, and there was much soul-searching about our failure to do anything about them. So headlines read "To Say `Never Again' and Mean it; the 1994 Rwandan genocide should have taught us...

Blog Post Chomsky: The Occupation

Blog Post, May, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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The occupation of Iraq has been an astonishing failure. It should have been one of the easiest in history. The more serious correspondents there are well aware of that. Patrick Cockburn recently wrote that "It has been one of the most extraordi...

Znet Article Chomsky: South Africa, Israel-Palestine, and the Contours of the Contemporary World Order

Znet Article, May, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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On behalf of Safundi, Christopher J. Lee interviewed Professor Noam Chomsky on March 9, 2004, in his office at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They spoke on the occasion of the tenth anniver...

Blog Post Chomsky: The Iraq Occupation

Blog Post, April, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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Typically, military occupations are quite successful, even by the most horrendous conquerors. Take, say, Hitler's occupation of Western Europe and Russia's postwar occupation of Eastern Europe. In both cases, the countries were run by collaborato...

Blog Post Chomsky: Iraq Controversy in Perspective

Blog Post, April, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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The whole front-page controversy is, in my opinion, not only diversionary but a real tribute to the success of indoctrination. There is a simple point that seems obvious to Iraqis, but is unmentionable here in the mainstream: the conquest of Iraq,...

Zmag Article Chomsky: U.S. & Haiti

Zmag Article, April, 01 2004 Noam Chomsky
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T hose who have any concern for Haiti will naturally want to understand how its most recent tragedy has been unfolding. For those who have had the privilege of any contact with the people of this t...

Znet Article Chomsky: Justice for Palestine?

Znet Article, March, 30 2004 Noam Chomsky
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1. What do you see as the best solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict? It depends what time frame we have in mind. In the short term, the only feasible and minimally decent solution is along the lines of the international consensus that the US ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Tempest Interviews Chomsky

Znet Article, March, 21 2004 Noam Chomsky
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Tempest Interviews Chomsky

Blog Post Chomsky: Understanding March 29

Blog Post, March, 20 2004 Noam Chomsky
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I spoke at a demo of about 20,000 people in Vancouver, very enthusiastic and engaged, and as far as I could tell, inspired to go on. Also to audiences of several thousands, which seemed the same. The pre-war demonstrations were without historical...

Blog Post Chomsky: Mahajan's Addition

Blog Post, March, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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In his blog, linked from the ZNet blogs, Rahul Mahajan of Empire Notes writes: In Chomsky's latest post, he's responding to someone advancing the standard humanitarian/liberation argument for the war on Iraq. At one point, he says The invasion o...

Blog Post Chomsky: Mideast Solutions

Blog Post, March, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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[This is the first question and answer in a lengthy interview conducted by Justin Podur and Stephen Shalom -- it will appear in the May issue of Z] 1. What do you see as the best solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict? It depends what time f...

Blog Post Chomsky: The Invasion of Iraq

Blog Post, March, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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All opponents of the invasion of Iraq -- at least, all those who bothered to think the matter through -- took for granted that there would be beneficial effects, as is often the case with military interventions: the bombing of Pearl Harbor, for ex...

Blog Post Chomsky: Monbiot's Concerns

Blog Post, March, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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Monbiot radically misinterprets the Hippocratic principle, "First, do no harm." According to Monbiot's interpretation, a doctor violates the Hippocratic oath by giving someone an injection, because the puncture harms the skin. No one has ever in...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post Chomsky: Structural Adjustment

Blog Post, March, 10 2004 Noam Chomsky
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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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Znet Article Chomsky: US-Haiti

Znet Article, March, 09 2004 Noam Chomsky
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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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Commentary 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.

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Chomsky: Preventive War 'the Supreme Crime'

Znet Article, August, 11 2003 Noam Chomsky
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September 2002 was marked by three events of considerable importance, closely related.  The most powerful state in history announced a new National Security Strategy asserting that it will maintain global hegemony permanently.  Any chall...

Znet Article Chomsky: Common sense Interview

Znet Article, July, 22 2003 Noam Chomsky
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On May 3, 2002, MIT linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky was interviewed by CommonSense: The Intercollegiate Journal of Humanism and Freethought CS: You have made an analogy between the conflict in Palestine and apartheid South Africa - do...

Znet Article Chomsky: What's Happening?

Znet Article, June, 14 2003 Noam Chomsky
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Atilio A. Boron: Looking at the recent US policies in Iraq, What do you think was the real goal behind this war? Noam Chomsky: Well, we can be quite confident on one thing. The reasons we are given can't possibly be the reasons. And we know that,...

Znet Article Chomsky: Does The USA Intend To Dominate The Whole World By Force?

Znet Article, June, 02 2003 Noam Chomsky
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ANDY CLARKHello and welcome to Amsterdam Forum - Radio Netherlands' interactive discussion programme.Today a special edition featuring the world-famous author and political activist Noam Chomsky.Professor Chomsky, once described by the New York Ti...

Znet Article Chomsky: Imperial Ambition

Znet Article, May, 16 2003 Noam Chomsky
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David Barsamian: What are the regional implications of the U.S. invasion and occupation of ...

Zmag Article Chomsky: Iraq is a Trial Run New “norm” in international relations

Zmag Article, May, 01 2003 Noam Chomsky
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Iraq is a Trial Run New “norm” in international relations

Znet Article Chomsky: Wars of Terror

Znet Article, April, 30 2003 Noam Chomsky
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It is widely argued that the September 11 terrorist attacks have changed the world dramatically, that nothing will be the same as the world enters into a new and frightening “age of terror”—the title of a collection of acad...

Znet Article Chomsky: Noam Chomsky Interviewed

Znet Article, April, 13 2003 Noam Chomsky
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(1) Why did the U.S. invade Iraq, in your view? These are naturally speculations, and policy makers may have varying motives. But we can have a high degree of confidence about the answers given by Bush-Powell and the rest; these cannot possibly ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Turkey and The US War On Iraq

Znet Article, April, 03 2003 Noam Chomsky
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1.Turkey is being bitterly criticized in the US for failing to allow us combat troops to use Turkey as a launching pad to open a second front in northern Iraq. There are indeed some who say US and British soldiers are dying in higher numbers becau...

Znet Article Chomsky: Iraq is a trial run

Znet Article, April, 02 2003 Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky , University Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founder of the modern science of linguistics and political activist, is a powerhouse of anti-imperialist activism in the United States today. On March 21, a crowded ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Chomsky on War

Znet Article, March, 31 2003 Noam Chomsky
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Below are some questions and answers from the ZNet forum system, the ZNet forums are a benefit offered to ZNet sustainers.Though the questions have been edited for space, we have tried to retain the original intent of the questions. Z -----------...

Znet Article Chomsky: Deep Concerns

Znet Article, March, 20 2003 Noam Chomsky
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At this grim moment, we can do nothing to stop the ongoing invasion.  But that does not mean that the task is over for people who have some concern for justice, freedom, and human rights.  Far from it. ...

Znet Article Chomsky: No To War

Znet Article, March, 17 2003 Noam Chomsky
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No To War

Znet Article Chomsky: Action, not speculation

Znet Article, March, 09 2003 Noam Chomsky
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  1. Do you have any predictions about what we might expect in the coming weeks?    If anything's obvious from the history of warfare, it's that very little can be predicted.  But what's going to happen is not w...

Zmag Article Chomsky: Confronting the Empire

Zmag Article, March, 01 2003 Noam Chomsky
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W e are meeting at a moment of world history that is in many ways unique—a moment that is ominous, but also full of hope. The U.S., the most powerful state in history, has proclaimed, loud an...

Znet Article Chomsky: No to war

Znet Article, February, 16 2003 Noam Chomsky
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[Communiqué from the EZLN which was read during the demonstration in Rome, Italy, on February 15, 2003.  It was read by Heidi Giuliani, the mother of activist Carlo, who was assassinated by the Italian police in Genoa in July of 2001.  ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Chomsky On The Anti War Movement

Znet Article, February, 04 2003 Noam Chomsky
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Matthew TempestTuesday February 4, 2003 Noam Chomsky: The [peace] demonstrations were another indication of a quite remarkable phenomenon. There is around the world and in the United States opposition to the coming war that is at a level that is c...

Znet Article Chomsky: Confronting the Empire

Znet Article, February, 01 2003 Noam Chomsky
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We are meeting at a moment of world history that is in many ways unique - ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Torturing Demcoracy

Znet Article, January, 25 2003 Noam Chomsky
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The richest country in the hemisphere, the United States of America, has a long his...

Znet Article Chomsky: Human Rights Week 2002

Znet Article, December, 28 2002 Noam Chomsky
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Human Rights Week is not much of an occasion in the US, with some notable qualifications. But it does receive considerable attention elsewhere. For me personally, Human Rights Week 2002 was memorable and poignant. The week opened on the eve of Hum...

Znet Article Chomsky: Interview With Chomsky

Znet Article, December, 28 2002 Noam Chomsky
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Mark Thomas: If we can start with US foreign policy in relation to Iraq and the War on Terror, what do you think is going on at the moment? Noam Chomsky: First of all I think we ought to be very cautious about using the phrase 'War on Terror'. Th...

Znet Article Chomsky: On The Verge Of War

Znet Article, December, 19 2002 Noam Chomsky
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Isin ELICIN: I would like to begin with a current issue topic for Turkey. EU rebuffed US's pressure for early entry talks for Turkey. Starting from this example, can you elaborate on the rift or maybe rather the rivalry between the EU and the US? ...

Znet Article Chomsky: A Modest Proposal

Znet Article, December, 03 2002 Noam Chomsky
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A Modest Proposal

Znet Article Chomsky: A Modest Proposal

Znet Article, December, 03 2002 Noam Chomsky
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The dedicated efforts of the Bush administration to take control of Iraq -- by war, military coup or some other means -- have elicited various analyses of the guiding motives. Offering one interpretation, Anatol Lieven, senior associate of the Ca...

Znet Article Chomsky: Chomsky replies about Avoiding American Crimes

Znet Article, September, 12 2002 Noam Chomsky
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Chomsky replies about Avoiding American Crimes

Znet Article Chomsky: Drain The Swamp And There Will Be No More Mosquitoes

Znet Article, September, 10 2002 Noam Chomsky
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September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the US government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda befor...

Commentary Chomsky: Albert Interviews Chomsky on Iraq

Commentary, September, 07 2002 Noam Chomsky
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Various questions are circulating among people worried about war. On Sept 1, 2002, Michael Albert put a dozen of these to Noam Chomsky, via email. Here are the first three questions and his responses...the whole interview will appear in the Octobe...

Znet Article Chomsky: Interview With Noam Chomsky about US Warplans

Znet Article, August, 29 2002 Noam Chomsky
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Various questions are circulating among people worried about war. On August 29, 2002, Michael Albert put some of these to Noam Chomsky, via email. Here are the questions and his responses... 1. Has Saddam Hussein been as evil as mainstream media ...

Commentary Chomsky: Cauca: Chomsky Interview

Commentary, July, 15 2002 Noam Chomsky
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At the time of this writing, the municipalities of Toribio and Jambalo in Northern Cauca are being bombarded by both FARC and the Colombian government. Northern Cauca is home to one of the most remarkable experiments in resistance to neoliberalis...

Znet Article Chomsky: Cauca: Their Fate Lies in Our Hands

Znet Article, July, 12 2002 Noam Chomsky
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At the time of this writing, the municipalities of Toribio and Jambalo in Northern Cauca are being bombarded by both FARC and the Colombian government.  Northern Cauca is home to one of the most remarkable experiments in resistance to neolibe...

Znet Article Chomsky: Chomsky Interview

Znet Article, July, 03 2002 Noam Chomsky
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1. How far do you belive will the US sacrifice its basic civil liberties for a greater sense of security? It is doubtful that the current attack on civil liberties has much to do with security. In general, one can expect the state to use any p...

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