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Commentary Chomsky: A Just War? Hardly

Commentary, May, 20 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Spurred by these times of invasions and evasions, discussion of "just war" has had a renaissance among scholars and even among policy-makers.

Commentary Chomsky: Perceptions of the "Unpeople"

Commentary, April, 29 2006 Noam Chomsky
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It is comforting to attribute the alleged "clash" between Islam and the West to their hatred of our freedom and values, as the president proclaimed after 9/11, or to our curious inability to communicate our true intentions. A New York Times headli...

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.

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.

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...

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...

Commentary Chomsky: The Week Online Interviews Chomsky

Commentary, February, 23 2002 Noam Chomsky
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Week Online: During Sunday's SuperBowl, the drug czar's office ran a series of paid ads attempting to link drug use and the "war on terrorism." If you use drugs, the ads said, you support terrorism. What is your take on this?

Commentary Chomsky: Composite Interview 2

Commentary, September, 20 2001 Noam Chomsky
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1. How do you see the media coverage of this event? Is there a parallel to the Gulf War in "manufacturing consent?"

Commentary Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival Part Two

Commentary, July, 04 2001 Noam Chomsky
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European observers find it "a paradox" that "a country willing to spend more than $100bn on an unproven project to blow up incoming nuclear warheads as they enter the atmosphere would opt not to pay less than a thousandth of that amount to help pr...

Commentary Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival Part One

Commentary, July, 03 2001 Noam Chomsky
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At the end of June,, the UN Conference on Disarmament concludes the second of its year 2001 sessions. Prospects for any constructive outcome of disarmament efforts are slim. Discussions have been blocked by US insistence on pursuing ballistic miss...

Commentary Chomsky: Escaping Orthodoxies

Commentary, December, 31 2000 Noam Chomsky
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DB: Talk in concrete ways about liberating the mind from orthodoxies. Take for example, humanitarian intervention.

Commentary Chomsky: Overcoming Orthodoxies

Commentary, December, 16 2000 Noam Chomsky
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David Barsamian: I want to come back to the idea of what individuals can do in overcoming orthodoxies. Steve Biko, the South African activist who was murdered by the apartheid regime while he was in custody, once said, The most powerful weapon in ...

Commentary Chomsky: Propaganda and Indoctrination

Commentary, December, 10 2000 Noam Chomsky
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This is the first of three Chomsky Commentaries I will send this month...each answers one or more queries from David Barsamian (DB) and all are excerpted from a still to be published interview... DB: Lets talk about a theme that we return to peri...

Commentary Chomsky: Al-Aqsa Intifida

Commentary, October, 26 2000 Noam Chomsky
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After three weeks of virtual war in the Israeli occupied territories, Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced a new plan to determine the final status of the region. During these weeks, over 100 Palestinians were killed, including 30 children, often b...

Commentary Chomsky: Chomsky Comments on Milosevic Ouster, etc.

Commentary, October, 12 2000 Noam Chomsky
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A number of people in the ZNet forum system and elsewhere have raised questions about the prominent role they see assigned to US-NATO in the flood of commentary on recent events in Yugoslavia, "gloating over the victory of the opposition in Yugosl...

Commentary Chomsky: Summits

Commentary, September, 17 2000 Noam Chomsky
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The United Nations Summit in New York in September was the second major gathering of government leaders marking the millennium. The first was the South Summit in Havana in April. The UN Summit received considerable national publicity, while the So...

Commentary Chomsky: "Peace Process" Prospects

Commentary, July, 27 2000 Noam Chomsky
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The latest AP report from Camp David (evening, July 25) begins: "The Middle East peace talks at Camp David collapsed Tuesday over rival claims to East Jerusalem. Disappointed, President Clinton said he tried several approaches but could not come u...

Commentary Chomsky: National Missile Defense

Commentary, July, 20 2000 Noam Chomsky
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Taking into account the results of the recent test, should President Clinton ask the Pentagon to go ahead with the national missile defense system?I would prefer to respond to a slight reformulation of the question. The most hopeful prospect for t...

Commentary Chomsky: Humanitarian Intervention

Commentary, July, 05 2000 Noam Chomsky
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At a public talk in February Chomsky was asked: "President Clinton recently said the U.S. has the right on humanitarian grounds to intervene, with force, in any country which it deems is abusing the human rights of its citizens. Do you agree ...

Commentary Chomsky: Credibility

Commentary, June, 16 2000 Noam Chomsky
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At a talk earlier this year, Chomsky was asked -- "KosovoÑwhat are the interests driving intervention? What do you foresee for the people of the region?"

Commentary Chomsky: Unsustainable Non Development

Commentary, May, 30 2000 Noam Chomsky
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At a recent talk Chomsky was asked ÒWhat are the motivations of the U.S. push for sustainable development in the developing world?Ó Here was his answerÉ

Commentary Chomsky: Assaulting Solidarity -- Privatizing Education

Commentary, May, 12 2000 Noam Chomsky
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There has been a general assault in the last 25 years on solidarity, democracy, social welfare, anything that interferes with private power, and there are many targets. One of the targets is undoubtedly the educational system. In fact, a couple of...

Commentary Chomsky: Colombia Ð Part Two of Two

Commentary, April, 25 2000 Noam Chomsky
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The sharp increase in arms shipped to Colombia is officially justified in terms of the "drug war," a claim taken seriously by few competent analysts, even apart from the instructive historical pattern, barely sampled here. As many have observed, t...

Commentary Chomsky: Colombia – Part Two of Two

Commentary, April, 25 2000 Noam Chomsky
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The sharp increase in arms shipped to Colombia is officially justified in terms of the "drug war," a claim taken seriously by few competent analysts, even apart from the instructive historical pattern, barely sampled here. As many have observed, t...

Commentary Chomsky: Colombia Ð Part One of Two

Commentary, April, 24 2000 Noam Chomsky
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In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of US military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). The figure is scheduled to increase sharply for the next two years. Through the 1990s, Colombia ha...

Commentary Chomsky: Colombia – Part One of Two

Commentary, April, 24 2000 Noam Chomsky
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In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of US military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). The figure is scheduled to increase sharply for the next two years. Through the 1990s, Colombia ha...

Commentary Chomsky: Four from the Forums

Commentary, January, 19 2000 Noam Chomsky
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On graduate unions, it's true enough that (ideally) "graduate teaching is pedagogical training," but that's incomplete. Any teaching, if done at all seriously, is also a way of learning -- about lots of things, including the subject you are teachi...

Commentary Chomsky: Millennial Visions and Selective Vision Part Two

Commentary, January, 13 2000 Noam Chomsky
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In fairness, it should be mentioned that the chorus of self-adulation that closed the millennium was disrupted by some discordant notes. Questions were raised about the consistency of our adherence to the guiding principles: the "new doctrine" tha...

Commentary Chomsky: Millennial Visions and Selective Vision Part One

Commentary, January, 10 2000 Noam Chomsky
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The new year opened with familiar refrains, amplified by the numerology: a chorus of self-adulation, somber ruminations about the incomprehensible evil of our enemies, and the usual recourse to selective amnesia to smooth the way. A few illustrati...

Commentary Chomsky: East Timor Is Not Yesterday's Story

Commentary, October, 23 1999 Noam Chomsky
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According to recent reports, the UN mission in East Timor has been able to account for just over 150,000 people out of an estimated population of 850,000. It reports that 260,000 "are now languishing in squalid refugee camps in West Timor under...

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