西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Chomsky supported Obama's election campaign in swing states, but regards his presidency as representing little more than a 'shift back towards the centre' and a striking foreign policy continuity with George Bush's second administration," reports Seumas Milne — Noam Chomsky: 'US Foreign Policy is Straight Out of the Mafia' . "The nature of the Bush-Obama transition bears directly...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
In an interview with the Guardian in Great Britain , noted leftist “anti-American imperialism” writer Noam Chomsky makes a number of observations about Afghanistan. Firstly, he believes that Barack Obama, a President who has been compared with some of the most leftwing figures in history, is little more than a “shift back towards the centre” and is practising foreign policy...
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
During Noam Chomsky's recent visit to Ireland five members of the Workers Solidarity Movement met him over breakfast to talk over a range of issues from Palestine to the capitalist crisis to social partnership to Iran to Obama and the US Labour Movement. Notes on the discussion are below followed by the audio recording itself.
baithak (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hamas Wants Britain to Make Amends for Crimes Against Palestine By Stuart Littlewood - London - Hamas marked the 92nd anniversary of the infamous Balfour Declaration by recalling the misery of the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe) and insisting that European states in general and Britain in particular make amends for the crimes committed against Palestine. Noam Chomsky: No Change in US 'Mafia Principle' By...
The Pakistani Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Noam Chomsky is the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar. A philosopher of language and political campaigner of towering academic reputation, who as good as invented modern linguistics, he is entertained by presidents, addresses the UN general assembly and commands a mass international audience. When he spoke in London last week, [...]
Israeli Occupation Archive (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Obama has made clear that the United States intends to retain a long-term major presence in the [ME] region. That much is signaled by the huge city-within-a city called “the Baghdad Embassy,” unlike... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
The Lockerbie Case (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
[This is the headline over an article on the website of the Scottish lawyers' magazine The Firm . It reads as follows:] Patrick Haseldine, a former diplomat under John Major's Westminster administration, has pressed Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill to take active steps to initiate an international inquiry into the Lockerbie debacle, pointing out that MacAskill pledged to support such an inquiry should...
Activist Teacher (Free subscription) | yesterday
This talk "Breaking the Rules" by Professor David F. Noble was presented at the unSchooling Oppression conference, Ottawa, Canada, November 5, 2007.Inspiring and entertaining... Put your headphones on and enjoy this vintage and personal David Noble material!When David Noble was fired from M.I.T. Noam Chomsky explained that "he was too radical for M.I.T." David Noble is arguably...
gregsdiary (Free subscription) | yesterday
"This is a recurrent theme in Chomsky's thinking about the American empire. He argues that since government officials first formulated plans for a "grand area" strategy for US global domination in the early 1940s, successive administrations have been guided by a "godfather principle, straight out of the mafia: that defiance cannot be tolerated." --Noam Chomsky US Foreign Policy...
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
'When I was 10 years old, I wrote an essay about the rise of fascism and the fall of Barcelona," chuckles 81-year old political theorist Noam Chomsky. "It was for a school newspaper of which I was the editor, sole writer and probably the only reader." Chomsky has many more readers now, but it's strangely comforting to imagine the premier intellectual of his generation holding forth...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Noam Chomsky in the Guardian: Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic. Of course you don’t deny other crimes, but your primary moral responsibility is for your own actions, which you can do something about. It’s the same charge which was made in the Bible by King Ahab, the epitome of evil, [...]
Israeli Occupation Archive (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Chomsky on the US's unwavering support for Israel and "rejectionism" of the two-state solution, effectively on offer for 30 years: That's not because of the overweening power of the Israel lobby in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
What Really happened (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In fact, in the same decade, three of the other most charismatic and effective leaders opposed to the US establishment also met violent deaths in suspicious circumstances that were never properly investigated - Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Robert F Kennedy. In all cases, Noam Chomsky insisted that there was nothing suspicious. Almost certainly, because of the influence he wielded amongst progressive...
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Noam Chomsky is the west's most prominent critic of US imperialism, yet he is rarely interviewed in the mainstream media . Seumas Milne meets him Seumas Milne The Guardian , Saturday 7 November 2009 "....When he spoke in London last week , thousands of young people battled for tickets to attend his lectures, followed live on the internet across the globe, as the 80-year-old American linguist fielded...
Screw Loose Change (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The debate over whether the "Truth" is Controlled Demolition continues to rage over at 9-11 Flogger . In a thread purportedly about Noam Chomsky not entirely (but mostly) ruling out the LIHOP scenario, some particularly stupid and offensive comments are left by Bruno Bruhwiler and one of his compadres who goes by the nick of AllendeAdmirer. Bruno first: LOL "I see water, I see buildings!...
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