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Chomsky: Q/A on the Iraq War
Znet Article, November, 29 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Q/A on the Iraq War
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Chomsky: McNeill Interview with Noam Chomsky
Znet Article, January, 31 2005
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McNeill Interview with Noam Chomsky
Chomsky: Civilization Versus Barbarism?
Znet Article, December, 27 2004
Noam Chomsky
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On December 17th Left Hook co-editor M. Junaid Alam met with Professor Noam Chomsky at his MIT office to get his thoughts on the ideological justifications and historical realities behind America's "war on terror." Professor Chomsky spent a half-h...
Chomsky: Imperial Presidency
Znet Article, December, 17 2004
Noam Chomsky
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It goes without saying that what happens in the US has an enormous impact on the rest of the world – and conversely: what happens in the rest of the...
Chomsky: Anarchism Interview
Znet Article, December, 06 2004
Noam Chomsky
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July 14, 2004 in Cambridge, MA. Ziga Vodovnik: When somebody declares himself as an anarchist, he basically tells very little about his inspirations and aspirations – about the question of means and ends. This only confirms an old truth ...
Chomsky: 2004 Elections
Znet Article, November, 29 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The elections of November 2004 have received a great deal of discussion, with exultation in some quarters, despair in others, and general lamentation about a "divided nation." They are likely to have policy consequences, particularly harmful to th...
Chomsky: The Resort to Force
Znet Article, September, 16 2004
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The Resort to Force
Chomsky: Advocacy and Realism
Znet Article, August, 26 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Advocacy and Realism
Chomsky: Policy Spectrum
Znet Article, August, 01 2004
Noam Chomsky
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MIT Professor Noam Chomsky is one of the world's most perceptive social critics. I had the opportunity recently to ask him some questions concerning a range of subject matter. Professor Chomsky's latest book is Hegemony or Survival: America's ...
Chomsky: The Reagan Era
Znet Article, June, 11 2004
Noam Chomsky
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With regard to the political system, the Reagan era represents a significant advance in capitalist democracy. For eight years, the U.S. government functioned vir...
Chomsky: Interview with Noam Chomsky
Znet Article, June, 11 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Oldenburg: In one chapter of your book Understanding Power - recently published in Germany under the title Eine Anatomie der Macht - you describe an interview situation in Canada. The interviewer got angry, cause you started criticizing Cana...
Chomsky: Doctrines And Visions: Who Is To Run The World, And How?
Znet Article, June, 07 2004
Noam Chomsky
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We have just passed the first anniversary of the President's declaration of victory in Iraq. I won't speak about what is happening on the ground. There is more than enough information about that, and we can draw our own conclusions. I will just me...
Chomsky: South Africa, Israel-Palestine, and the Contours of the Contemporary World Order
Znet Article, May, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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On behalf of Safundi, Christopher J. Lee interviewed Professor Noam Chomsky on March 9, 2004, in his office at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They spoke on the occasion of the tenth anniver...
Chomsky: Justice for Palestine?
Znet Article, March, 30 2004
Noam Chomsky
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1. What do you see as the best solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict? It depends what time frame we have in mind. In the short term, the only feasible and minimally decent solution is along the lines of the international consensus that the US ...
Chomsky: Tempest Interviews Chomsky
Znet Article, March, 21 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Tempest Interviews Chomsky
Chomsky: US-Haiti
Znet Article, March, 09 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Those who have any concern for Haiti will naturally want to understand how its most recent tragedy has been unfolding. And for those who have had the privilege of any contact with the people of this tor...
Chomsky: A Wall as a Weapon
Znet Article, February, 23 2004
Noam Chomsky
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It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else. Careful scrutiny is always in order. Israel's so-called security fence, which is the subject of ...
