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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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
Noam Chomsky
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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
Noam Chomsky
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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...
