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Commentary Chomsky: Latin America And Asia Are At Last Breaking Free Of Washington's Grip

Commentary, March, 17 2006 Noam Chomsky
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The prospect that Europe and Asia might move towards greater independence has troubled US planners since the second world war. The concerns have only risen as the "tripolar order" - Europe, North America and Asia - has continued to evolve.

Znet Article Chomsky: The Long View

Znet Article, March, 08 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Staunton: First of all, I wanted to clear something up. I understand that some remarks you made about Bertie Ahern and "shoe shining" may have been reported inaccurately.Chomsky: The Press Association story on December 26th said that on his way to...

Znet Article Chomsky: Latin American Integration

Znet Article, March, 07 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Bernie Dwyer: I am reminded of a great Irish song called "The West's Awake" written by Thomas Davis in remembrance of the Fenian Uprising of 1798. It is about the west of Ireland asleep under British rule for hundreds of years and how it awoke fro...

Znet Article Chomsky: Discussion on the Cuban Five

Znet Article, February, 26 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Screening of "Mission Against Terror", a documentary about the Cuban Five. After the showing of the film, Professor Chomsky answered questions from the audience. For more information on the on-going case of the Cuban Five, visit www.freethefive....

Znet Article Chomsky: Korea and International Affairs

Znet Article, February, 22 2006 Noam Chomsky
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SUN WOO LEE: How is your health? NOAM CHOMSKY: I am fine, as you can see. SUN WOO LEE: Is there any recent issue of interest related to Korea which you have been following? NOAM CHOMSKY: Korea is playing a very significant role in world affa...

Blog Post Chomsky: The US, Israel & Hamas

Blog Post, February, 21 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Z Sustainer question: Do you think the US/Israeli position of refusing aid/relations with the PA under Hamas is likely to have the effect of making Hamas take a more radical uncompromising stance vis-a-vis Fatah and Israel? If so, do you think thi...

Blog Post Chomsky: An Exercise in Terrorism: Theirs or Ours

Blog Post, February, 09 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Suppose that Al-Qaeda destroyed half the pharmaceutical supplies in some country where people matter -- say the US, or Israel, etc.  Would we regard it as an act of terrorism?  They could claim they had no intent to harm anyone, they jus...

Blog Post Chomsky: The US Invasion of Afghanistan

Blog Post, February, 09 2006 Noam Chomsky
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[There was a transcription error in the earlier presentation here - corrected now] ...[T]he invasion was not undertaken to overthrow the Taliban.  That was an afterthought, added after three weeks of bombing.  A [main thing to con...

Blog Post Chomsky: Official Definitions of Terrorism

Blog Post, February, 02 2006 Noam Chomsky
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[Editorial Note:] The US Code for defining an "act of terrorism" is an activity that -- (A) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any State, or that woul...

Znet Article Chomsky: Irish Times Interview

Znet Article, January, 24 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Q First of all, I wanted to clear something up. I understand that some remarks you made about Bertie Ahern and “shoe shining ” may have been reported inaccurately. A The Press Association story on December 26th said that on his wa...

Znet Article Chomsky: Chomsky: 'There Is No War On Terror'

Znet Article, January, 16 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Geov Parrish: Is George Bush in political trouble? And if so, why? Noam Chomsky: George Bush would be in severe political trouble if there were an opposition political party in the country. Just about every day, they're shooting themselves in the...

Znet Article Chomsky: Beyond the Ballot

Znet Article, January, 07 2006 Noam Chomsky
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The US President Bush called last month’s Iraqi elections a "major milestone in the march to democracy." They are indeed a milestone -- just not the kind that Washington would welcome. Disregarding the standard declarations of benign inten...

Znet Article Chomsky: A Tale of Two Quagmires

Znet Article, January, 04 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Hastings: Where do you see Iraq heading right now? Chomsky: Well, it's extremely difficult to talk about this because of a very rigid doctrine that prevails in the United States and Britain which prevents us from looking at the situation realisti...

Znet Article Chomsky: Israel and Palestine After Disengagement

Znet Article, January, 04 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Kennedy School of Government, November 29, 2005 Note: the transcript is incomplete. There doesn't seem to be a better version online. ALAN DERSHOWITZ: It's a great honor for me to be participating in a debate with a man who has been called the ...

Blog Post Chomsky: Propaganda

Blog Post, January, 02 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Usage of the term "propaganda" is interesting. ...it's much like "terrorism." Before World War II, the term was freely used in English in its literal sense, and its use (by business and properly chosen governments) was considered highly meritori...

Blog Post Chomsky: Ahmadinejad & Iranian Nuclear Weapons

Blog Post, January, 02 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Ahmadinejad seems to be something of a loose cannon, and he's apparently making the religious conservatives who are the real power pretty nervous. They've stripped the presidency of some of its powers and transferred them to his main rival Rafsanj...

Znet Article Chomsky: On the Iraq Election

Znet Article, December, 27 2005 Noam Chomsky
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Andy Clark: Let's start off by talking about the elections in Iraq. Let's hear how President Bush was billing them just a few days ahead of the vote. President Bush: "By helping Iraqis build a strong democracy, we're adding to our own security an...

Znet Article Chomsky: On War and Activism

Znet Article, December, 27 2005 Noam Chomsky
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First of all, happy birthday. Thank you. December 7th is also the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It's also the anniversary of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, authorized by Henry Kissinger, which probably wiped out a third of ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Pamuk, Tas...

Znet Article, December, 24 2005 Noam Chomsky
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The trial of Orhan Pamuk puts a spotlight on Turkey as never before.  Many politicians, periodicals, and human-rights groups have criticized Turkey’s unwarranted prosecution of Pamuk and 60 other writers and publishers under Article 301 of...

Znet Article Chomsky: On Fake News and Other Societal Woes

Znet Article, December, 22 2005 Noam Chomsky
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Interviewer: This is Irene from No One's Listening, but in honor of your appearance on the show today we're entitling it Noam's listening. Chomsky: Oh, well, that's nice. Interviewer: So our show today is about video news releases. Chomsky: Vi...

Znet Article Chomsky: We Are All Complicit

Znet Article, December, 22 2005 Noam Chomsky
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I turned with interest to Oliver Kamm's critique (Prospect, November 2005) of the "crude and dishonest arguments" he attributes to me, hoping to learn something. And learn something I did, though not quite what Kamm intended; rather, about the len...

Blog Post Chomsky: Iraq and Iran

Blog Post, December, 20 2005 Noam Chomsky
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It's pretty clear that the major Shiite parties have pretty close links with Iran. The Badr brigades, which control large parts of the south were trained there. A majority of the influential clerics come from there (including Sistani). And l...

Znet Article Chomsky: Q/A on the Iraq War

Znet Article, November, 29 2005 Noam Chomsky
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Q/A on the Iraq War

Blog Post Chomsky: The Plame Affair

Blog Post, November, 28 2005 Noam Chomsky
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[C]rucial issues are not being discussed, and are not even thinkable. But there's nothing new about that. I'm constantly shocked to hear, even from critics, about the bravery of the media in exposing the crimes of Vietnam, or Watergate, or other...

Blog Post Chomsky: The Guardian Smear & Silencing Dissent

Blog Post, November, 21 2005 Noam Chomsky
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The evidence of editorial planning is overwhelming. Just consider the layout, the highly selective photos designed for defamation (which took plenty of careful work and planning), the lies and deceit in the captions, etc. Furthermore, it's obv...

Blog Post Chomsky: US Withdrawl from Iraq

Blog Post, November, 18 2005 Noam Chomsky
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Surveys in Iraq are quite difficult because the invasion and occupation have created a catastrophe that is virtually without parallel. I can't think of another war where journalists had to stay pretty much within a heavily fortified zone or tra...

Znet Article Chomsky: Master Mind

Znet Article, November, 15 2005 Noam Chomsky
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Three weeks ago, Prof. Noam Chomsky was voted the most important public intellectual in the world today. About 20,000 people took part in the poll, which was conducted jointly by a British monthly called Prospect and the Washington-based Foreign P...

Znet Article Chomsky: Chomsky Answers Guardian

Znet Article, November, 13 2005 Noam Chomsky
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This is an open letter to a few of the people with whom I had discussed the Guardian interview of 31 October, on the basis of the electronic version, which is all that I had seen.  Someone has just sent me a copy of the printed version, and I now ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Social Change Today

Znet Article, November, 11 2005 Noam Chomsky
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Steven Durel: Professor Chomsky, for forty years now you have been a leading voice in political action and social justice. After this near half-century of participation in the libertarian movement, how have things changed? Noam Chomsky: Change is...

Znet Article Chomsky: Intelligent Design?

Znet Article, November, 10 2005 Noam Chomsky
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President George W. Bush favours teaching both evolution and "Intelligent Design" in schools, "so people can know what the debate is about." To proponents, Intelligent Design is the notion that the universe is too complex t...

Blog Post Chomsky: The US, Venezuela & Columbia

Blog Post, October, 30 2005 Noam Chomsky
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In Venezuela, the US has tried even more drastic measures, like supporting a military coup that (briefly) overthrew the democratically elected government in 2002. The US had to back down in the face of enormous protest in Latin America, where d...

Blog Post Chomsky: US Failure in Iraq & Iraqi Opinion on Withdrawal

Blog Post, October, 30 2005 Noam Chomsky
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I'd suggest rethinking the term "failure." In occupied Europe, the Nazis were extremely successful. They imposed client governments which ran the countries including the security forces, with Germany always in the background, but not much involve...

Blog Post Chomsky: The US, Israel, & Corporate Power

Blog Post, October, 30 2005 Noam Chomsky
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It's certainly arguable that the US policy towards Israel-Palestine has not been in the interests of US state-corporate power. That's been argued in the mainstream. I suspect if you did a poll of energy corporation CEOs, that's what you'd hear. ...

Blog Post Chomsky: Market Principles?

Blog Post, September, 19 2005 Noam Chomsky
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Take the US. In 1750… it was one of the richest societies on earth, but it was, of course, pre-industrial. If it had pursued its comparative advantage in accordance with market principles, it would now be exporting fish, fur, agricultural products...

Blog Post Chomsky: The Bush Administration and Fascism

Blog Post, September, 04 2005 Noam Chomsky
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…The Bush administration (like the Reagan administration) has a particularly difficult task, and the Bush faction is pretty much a narrow reactionary statist extreme of the Reaganites -- who were a narrow reactionary statist extreme of the narrow ...

Blog Post Chomsky: The Afghanistan Food Crisis

Blog Post, September, 04 2005 Noam Chomsky
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I plead guilty of failing to write anything at all about this at the time when it mattered, or even to mention it except in some scattered interviews and a few remarks in talks. That failure was deplorable, since the threat of bombing, and then th...

Znet Article Chomsky: The Afghanistan Food Crisis

Znet Article, September, 04 2005 Noam Chomsky
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The following was a ZNet Sustaiiner Forum Post replying to a question about the aftermath of bombing Afghanistan. It also appeared in the ZNet Blog, where a subset of Chomsky's forum posts are placed. For all the forum posts, become...

Blog Post Chomsky: Implementation of UN Resolutions

Blog Post, August, 25 2005 Noam Chomsky
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States that practice torture, slavery, brutal oppression of women, child labor, and other crimes were not condemned when these were standard practices. Same with ethnic cleansing, conquest, destruction of societies under imperial domination, et...

Znet Article Chomsky: We Must Act Now to Prevent Another Hiroshima -- or Worse

Znet Article, August, 17 2005 Noam Chomsky
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We Must Act Now to Prevent Another Hiroshima -- or Worse

Blog Post Chomsky: The Lancet Study

Blog Post, August, 07 2005 Noam Chomsky
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It's correct that the Lancet study, by far the most authoritative available, deliberately excluded Fallujah, because that would have raised the estimates much higher -- recall that as in all scientific inquiries in related areas (technically, anyw...

Blog Post Chomsky: The Official 911 Story

Blog Post, August, 07 2005 Noam Chomsky
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The simple reason why I presume that the official story is probably true is that it seems to me by far the most credible one. I've explained why in earlier posts, and also why the whole matter is very far from high priority for me. Since there ...

Blog Post Chomsky: Turkey and the Tyranny of Business

Blog Post, August, 07 2005 Noam Chomsky
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In the US and elsewhere, the government is often the "tyrant" of business. That's why business so bitterly opposes government regulation when it cannot control the system itself (as it sometimes but by no means always does). And there are many c...

Blog Post Chomsky: The "Gaza disengagement plan"

Blog Post, July, 23 2005 Noam Chomsky
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Any sane Israeli government would want to remove Israeli settlements from Gaza, where about 8000 settlers take a large part of the land and resources, and have to be protected by huge army contingents. Far more rational, now that the occupation...

Blog Post Chomsky: Resistance to Neo-Liberal Globalization

Blog Post, July, 23 2005 Noam Chomsky
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It's been going on for some time, first in the South -- India, Brazil, South Africa,... -- and since Seattle primarily, the North has joined in. But all of this is some years back, in the South, decades (which is why the World Social Forum has be...

Blog Post Chomsky: Serving US Government Interests

Blog Post, July, 23 2005 Noam Chomsky
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It's (The Lavan case) not the only case. The attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli air and naval forces towards the end of the 1967 war is hardly known, and among those who know, most probably accept the official story (regrettable accident) -- ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Resort To Fear

Znet Article, July, 21 2005 Noam Chomsky
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The resort to fear by systems of power to discipline the domestic population has left a long and terrible trail of bloodshed and suffering which we ignore at our peril. Recent history provides many shocking illustrations. The mid-twentieth centur...

Blog Post Chomsky: "Demographic Problems"?

Blog Post, July, 13 2005 Noam Chomsky
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The idea of a "deliberate attempt" [to take over European countries] is too idiotic and racist to merit comment. Reminds me of writings of progressives a century ago that the evil Chinese are secretly attempting to infiltrate into the US and take...

Blog Post Chomsky: Hustler Interview Context

Blog Post, July, 12 2005 Noam Chomsky
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Noam, can you tell folks how it came about that you have an interview in Hustler and your feeings about it being there? I give 100s of interviews. I received a letter from someone named Sinclair, requesting an interview for a journal that she ...

Blog Post Chomsky: The United Nations

Blog Post, July, 06 2005 Noam Chomsky
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…Americans favor international law and institutions, very strongly in fact. Which is pretty remarkable given the beating they take in the mainstream doctrinal system. As for the UN, there is plenty wrong with it, but the main problems trace back...

Znet Article Chomsky: What We Know

Znet Article, July, 05 2005 Noam Chomsky
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Thirty-five years ago I agreed, in a weak moment, to give a talk with the title “Language and Freedom.” When the time came to think about it, I realized that I might have something to say about language and about freedom, but the w...

Znet Article 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Znet Article 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Znet Article 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Znet Article 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

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