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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...

Znet Article Chomsky: Q/A on the Iraq War

Znet Article, November, 29 2005 Noam Chomsky
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Q/A on the Iraq War

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Chomsky: McNeill Interview with Noam Chomsky

Znet Article, January, 31 2005 Noam Chomsky
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McNeill Interview with Noam Chomsky

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Chomsky: The Resort to Force

Znet Article, September, 16 2004 Noam Chomsky
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The Resort to Force

Znet Article Chomsky: Advocacy and Realism

Znet Article, August, 26 2004 Noam Chomsky
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Advocacy and Realism

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

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