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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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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) -- ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
