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Znet Article Chomsky: A modest proposal

Znet Article, October, 22 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Former Secretary of State James Baker, co-chairing a bipartisan commission on Ir...

Znet Article Chomsky: U.S. Intervention in Venezuela and in Latin America

Znet Article, October, 13 2006 Noam Chomsky
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A public event on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the bombing of Cubana airliner, flight 455, which cost the lives of 73 passengers, was held on October 6th, 2006, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Boston. Participatin...

Znet Article Chomsky: Comments on Dershowitz

Znet Article, September, 06 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Alan Dershowitz’s regular little performances are eminently ignorable, including the one reproduced below. But since I’ve been asked several times for comments on this one, a few follow. Dershowitz’s opens by writing that ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Their View Of The World Is Through A Bombsight

Znet Article, September, 02 2006 Noam Chomsky
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In Lebanon, a little-honored truce remains in effect - yet another in a decades-long series of ceasefires between Israel and its adversaries in a cycle that, as if inevitably, returns to warfare, carnage and human misery. Let's describe the curren...

Znet Article Chomsky: UN Security Council Acts within Constraints Set by Great Powers

Znet Article, August, 23 2006 Noam Chomsky
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UN Security Council Resolution 1701 came very late and posed a fragile ceasefire, yet there will be another war as long as the Bush-backed Israel has the pretext of "safer borders," and Bush himself is insisting on going further in his war again...

Znet Article Chomsky: On the US-Israeli Invasion of Lebanon

Znet Article, August, 23 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Though there are many interacting factors, the immediate issue that lies behind the latest US-Israeli invasion of Lebanon remains, I believe, what it was in the four preceding invasions: the Israel-Palestine conflict. In the most important case, t...

Znet Article Chomsky: UN Security Council Acts within Constraints Set by Great Powers

Znet Article, August, 23 2006 Noam Chomsky
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UN Security Council Resolution 1701 came very late and posed a fragile ceasefire, yet there will be another war as long as the Bush-backed Israel has the pretext of "safer borders," and Bush himself is insisting on going further in his war again...

Znet Article Chomsky: On Israel, Lebanon and Palestine

Znet Article, August, 12 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Do you agree with the argument that Israel's military offensive in Lebanon is "legally and morally justified?" Noam Chomsky: The invasion itself is a serious breach of international law, and major war crimes are being committed as it proceeds. Th...

Znet Article Chomsky: Confrontation with Hamas and Hezbollah

Znet Article, July, 29 2006 Noam Chomsky
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[The following excerpt is from the Epilogue to Pe...

Znet Article Chomsky: On Iraq, Iran and Blair

Znet Article, June, 21 2006 Noam Chomsky
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The New York Times calls him "arguably the most important intellectual alive", yet he has needed police guards on his own campus. Andrew Stephen discusses Iraq, Iran and Blair with a man who divides opinion like no other You might think the Massac...

Znet Article Chomsky: A negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis is within reach

Znet Article, June, 19 2006 Noam Chomsky
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he urgency of halting the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and moving toward their elimination, could hardly be greater. Failure to do so is almost certain to lead to grim consequences, even the end of biology's only experiment with higher intell...

Znet Article Chomsky: Subordinate and Non-Subordinate States

Znet Article, May, 08 2006 Noam Chomsky
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  Noam Chomsky, whom the New York Times has called “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” was voted the leading living public intellectual in The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll conducted by the British magazine P...

Znet Article Chomsky: Afterword: Failed States

Znet Article, April, 26 2006 Noam Chomsky
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We began by considering four critical issues that should rank high on the agenda of those concerned with the prospects for a decent future. Two of them are literally matters of survival: nuclear war and environmental disaster. The first danger is ...

Znet Article Chomsky: On Hegemony And Disarmament

Znet Article, April, 09 2006 Noam Chomsky
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IN a world full of ruthless economics, fanaticism, dogmatism, aggressive sectarianism and, most of all, terrorism and violence, our survival depends, in the words of Vaclav Havel, the former President of Czechoslovakia, on the "degree to which we ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Returning to the Scene of the Crime

Znet Article, April, 04 2006 Noam Chomsky
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[This piece is adapted from Chapter 2 of Noam Chomsky's newest book, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (New York: ...

Znet Article Chomsky: The Israel Lobby?

Znet Article, March, 28 2006 Noam Chomsky
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I've received many requests to comment on the article by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (henceforth M-W), published in the London Review of Books, which has been circulating extensively on the internet and has elicited a storm of controversy.  ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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