Hidden Track (Free subscription) | yesterday
HT: What are some of your biggest influences outside of music ( i.e. , writing, films, people, etc.)? DS: Like any married man, my wife has been a big influence. There are some authors that I definitely consider influences not only outside of my musical life, but probably in songwriting as well. A few I can think of now would be John Steinbeck, Noam Chomsky, James Agee, and Hemingway. HT: Who would...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | yesterday
Noam Chomsky talks about – and praises! – my work in this lecture at SOAS. I almost cried when I heard it. Reading Chomsky’s work has been an essential part of helping me to figure out exactly why I was so horrifically wrong about Iraq, and how I should change my thinking. I owe him [...]
GayandRight (Free subscription) | yesterday
A nice short piece on Amnesty. I used to have a lot of respect for Amnesty - but no longer. In recent months, Amnesty International in the UK has taken a sharp anti-Israel turn. This will be obvious to anyone who receives the organisation’s bi-monthly magazine, which now features articles bashing Israel in every single issue. For example, last summer the magazine carried a long report on a visit...
The Daily Blahg (Free subscription) | yesterday
Once again, thanks to Tiger Woods' personal problems, I am reminded of something Noam Chomsky once told me at a Columbia graduation event. "There are no such things as heroes in sports," he said. "There are only people who play games better than other people." I fully believe that to be true, but I also think that some athletes are considerably smarter than others. And the smartest...
Hitchens Watch (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The audio of an interesting debate has cropped up on the Youtube channel of that long-time Hitchens wannabe-flunky, hexag1 . The debate takes place during those sunny days of yore back in ol '91 in the aftermath of the glorious Gulf War. Veteran commentator Mort Kondracke takes on some Saddam-lover and Baathist apologist, one whom makes numerous facile moral equivalences by absurdly demanding that...
Paths To Knowledge (dot NET) (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
We have seen Noam Chomsky’s principle of “Manufacturing Consent” working with the Climategate criminals Jones, Mann, et. al.. A conspiracy of “values and beliefs”, an elitist clique that thought that they were above the rest of the people they worked for, us. Other scientists have this “academic” elitist bias or shared value, that says that [...]
normblog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
From an interview with Noam Chomsky by Guernica magazine: Guernica: And you cite a story in the New York Times where "the reviewer," you write, "constitutional lawyer Noah Feldman, described Osama [bin Laden]'s descent to greater and greater evil over...
Pete McCormack's Blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Somebody somewhere out there might find this early aspect of the Vietnam War historically interesting—beginning something like fifty years ago. Hard to believe I was almost around then. I was motivated to do a little research, from the Noam Chomsky comment below, and below that is what came up in a diligent few hours. Okay, [...]
FREEDOM EDEN (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Meet Obama's anti-Semitism czar: Hannah Rosenthal. Aaron Klein writes about the radical Rosenthal and her husband, Richard Phelps. President Obama's new anti-Semitism czar was a 1960s anti-war activist and community organizer whose husband worked with the founder of a socialist party, of which, according to documentary evidence, Obama was a member. Hannah Rosenthal, a former Health Department regional...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali recently spoke at The Imperial College Political Philosophy Society in London in association with Palestine societies at UCL, SOAS, Goldsmiths, LSE, Imperial and Kings on Palestine and the region in the Obama era: the emerging framework: Chomsky: Palestine and the region in the Obama era: the emerging framework. from ICU Political [...]
What's Left in the Church (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Matt Yglesias highlights something extremely stupid in Thomas Friedman (a task made infintely more difficult by settling on just one such item): Yes, after two decades in which U.S. foreign policy has been largely dedicated to rescuing Muslims or trying to help free them from tyranny— in Bosnia, Darfur, Kuwait, Somalia, Lebanon, Kurdistan, post-earthquake Pakistan, post-tsunami Indonesia, Iraq...
Gates of Vienna (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Fjordman’s latest essay has been published at Democracy Reform . Some excerpts are below: American journalist and author Thomas Friedman has written several columns in The New York Times during the fall of 2009 where he questions the Western democratic system. There are perfectly legitimate reasons for criticizing certain aspects of the democratic system, but I’m not sure if his are the...
American Conservative University (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Show 482 Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy. Medved talks to DVD producer. Audio MP3 Michael Medved talks to Nick Tucker producer of the DVD Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy. Publisher Comments: Prominent liberals support a whole litany of policies and principles: progressive taxes, affirmative action, greater regulation of corporations, raising the inheritance...
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
It’s not the case, as the naïve might think, that indoctrination is inconsistent with democracy. … The point is that in a military State or a feudal State or what we would nowadays call a totalitarian State, it doesn’t much matter what people think because you’ve got a bludgeon over their head and you can control what they do. But when the state loses the bludgeon, when...
The Lockerbie Case (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
[This is the headline over an article by Caroline Muscat in today's edition of the Maltese newspaper The Sunday Times . It reads in part:] Two former British Labour and Conservative MPs have joined American political activist Noam Chomsky in calling on the Maltese government to defend the country's reputation. Prof Chomsky and the British MPs are signatories to a letter sent to the government calling...
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