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Chomsky: Hassan Nasrallah
Blog Post, July, 22 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
My impression is about the same as others who have met him...
Chomsky: South America
Blog Post, July, 22 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The steps towards integration are real, but face great obstacles. The countries have different interests, and there are cross-cutting conflicts of a very serious sort. Take Ecuador. The large indigenous population shares interests with the larg...
Chomsky: CNN’s Michael Ware on Iraq
Blog Post, May, 17 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
I doubt that Ware has anything like the direct experience in Iraq of Nir Rosen, Patrick Cockburn, and the few other journalist who actually know the country well. But put that aside.
Chomsky: Kosovo/Serbia, Palestine/Israel, Tibet/China
Blog Post, March, 25 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Seems to me there is a much closer analogy between the Palestinian occupied territories and Tibet right now...
Chomsky: Venezuela’s Referendum
Blog Post, December, 31 2007
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The referendum vote was about 50-50, and the slight negative outcome was immediately accepted by Chavez, a fact that should have caused some embarrassment in the editorial offices and among correspondents who have been having regular tantrums abou...
Chomsky: Conspiracy Theories
Blog Post, December, 07 2007
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
I have heard and read that you are against the theories that question the relationship between 9'11 and the Bush administration to the degree that it was an "inside job". Do you still think that the case, just like the JFK case, needs further inve...
Chomsky: Afghanistan Poll
Blog Post, December, 07 2007
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Take Kandahar, where Canadian troops are located, so the Canadian polling organization chose to over-represent it in the poll, along with Kabul, artificially rich because of the international presence. In Kandahar, 2/3...
Chomsky: Samantha Power, Bush & Terrorism
Blog Post, July, 31 2007
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The following exchange took place in the ZNet Sustainer system, where Noam hosts a forum... ZNet Sustainer: Noam, Would you be willing to comment on Samantha Power's review essay in the 29 July NYT Book Review? The Times presents her as ...
Chomsky: Help Iraqis?
Blog Post, May, 14 2007
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
[Noam hosts a forum in the Z Sustainer chat board, where the below exchange took place] Z Sustainer: How can the United States actually help the Iraqi people, without keeping troops in the country? Noam Chomsky: There was a revealing f...
Chomsky: Polls, Free Markets & Vietnam
Blog Post, May, 01 2007
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Below is Noam Chomsky's response to a question in the Z Sustainer chat board where Noam hosts a forum.
Chomsky: Ford, Angola, Iran, Iraq & Helsinki
Blog Post, February, 17 2007
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
A ZNet sustainer recently asked Noam Chomsky about Gerald Ford. The sustainer question is beneath Noam's wide ranging response… Noam Chomsky: There's a lot more. Take Angola, for example. There is very illuminating scholarly work on thi...
Chomsky: The Cambodia Industry
Blog Post, December, 20 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Below is an exchange that took place in the ZNet Sustainer Forums where Noam interacts with the forum users. The question posed to Noam, and related material cited, is further below in this blog post. Here is Noam's response to the question......
Chomsky: Israel & Gaza
Blog Post, November, 29 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The following is an exchange between a ZNet Sustainer and Noam Chomsky, which took place in the Sustainer Web Board where Noam hosts a forum... ZNet Sustainer: Prof. Chomsky, I fnd myself frustrated trying to figure out what is going on in th...
Chomsky: 9-11: Institutional Analysis vs. Conspiracy Theory
Blog Post, October, 06 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The following is an exchange between a ZNet Sustainer and Noam Chomsky, which took place in the Sustainer Web Board where Noam hosts a forum... ZNet Sustainer: Dear Noam, There is much documentation observed and uncovered by the 911 families thems...
Chomsky: The Declassified Record
Blog Post, August, 19 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Z Sustainer: I'm not really clear about what you mean when you refer to the "declassified record." Whatever it is that you're referring to is obviously an unbelievably valuable resource. Again and again, I've seen you e...
Chomsky: Media, Lebanon & U.S. - Israeli Brutal Operations
Blog Post, August, 19 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Below is a Q&A from the Z Sustianer System. Z Sustianer: While I certainly wouldn't characterize the coverage of the Israeli atrocities as "balanced", it has been far better than I would have expected, at least in so ...
Chomsky: The Story of Kinda
Blog Post, August, 09 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Chomsky was asked the following question in the Z Sustainer Forums: In organizing, I've noticed among my active friends and family that when constantly confronting these crimes, it is very easy to become depressed or develop all kinds of anx...
Chomsky: Hizbullah & Deterring Israeli Aggression
Blog Post, July, 23 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
In response to Assaf Kfoury's July 12 ZNet article “Noam Chomsky in Beirut”, where Chomsky is quoted as saying ” I think Nasrallah [head of Hizbullah] has a reasoned and persuasive argument that the arms should be in the hands of Hizbullah as a...
Chomsky: NATO's Invasion of Kosovo & Apologetics for State Violence
Blog Post, April, 25 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Z Sustainer: In an interview on Irish television (RTS News “On the Iraq War and Rendition Flights”, January 19, 2006) you were asked some questions about NATO's “humanitarian intervention” in Kosovo. The interviewer quoted the executive summary of...
Chomsky: Attacking Iran?
Blog Post, April, 18 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Z Sustainer: Do you think it is likely that the Bush Administration will attack Iran? I thought they would be reluctant to fight someone who can put up resistance, but I guess they could do some air strikes without losing any troops? ...
Chomsky: Immigrant Civil Rights Movement
Blog Post, April, 11 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Z Sustainer question: Have you been following the new explosion of activism on the immigration issue? It's a really exciting time to live in Tucson. I've been involved in this issue for over 6 years and I've never seen anything like it...
Chomsky: The US, Israel & Hamas
Blog Post, February, 21 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
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...
Chomsky: An Exercise in Terrorism: Theirs or Ours
Blog Post, February, 09 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
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...
Chomsky: The US Invasion of Afghanistan
Blog Post, February, 09 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
[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...
Chomsky: Official Definitions of Terrorism
Blog Post, February, 02 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
[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...
Chomsky: Propaganda
Blog Post, January, 02 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
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...
Chomsky: Ahmadinejad & Iranian Nuclear Weapons
Blog Post, January, 02 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
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...
Chomsky: Iraq and Iran
Blog Post, December, 20 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
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...
Chomsky: The Plame Affair
Blog Post, November, 28 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
[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...
Chomsky: The Guardian Smear & Silencing Dissent
Blog Post, November, 21 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
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...
