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7db5215384a92acc | articles | The Worst Crime of the 21st Century. | 2023-05-12 | The Worst Crime of the 21st Century Chomsky and Robinson in Current Affairs May 12, 2023. Current Affairs. Content warning: Descriptions of graphic violence First, a story from the years of the American occupation of Iraq , one of thousands that could be recounted. This one appears in Dexter Filkins’ The Forever War : ... | 85,930 | f3bd83dd542654f4b4c2862dff04a7c4f5b3297c28afa4c6403f86f00c3a0de2 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
78c8e5c338ceaf71 | articles | The Clock is Ticking. | 2023-03-27 | The Clock is Ticking Noam Chomsky in The Progressive March 27, 2023. The Progressive. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ’ Doomsday Clock has recently been set to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has come to termination. The analysts who set the clock cited the two most salient reasons: the growing threat ... | 10,760 | 0eab6049cb0615b6a1ca81b9fb49a27725e3d16696b2e2daf40d8ee41436396f | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
208819361cf62620 | articles | Chomsky and Prashad: Cuba is not a state sponsor of terrorism. | 2023-02-12 | Chomsky and Prashad: Cuba is not a state sponsor of terrorism Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad February 12, 2023. Peoples Dispatch . Cuba, a country of eleven million people, has been under an illegal embargo by the United States government for over six decades. Despite this embargo, Cuba’s people have been able to trans... | 1,673 | f40e304df275caa82e0d06506c14a16095691439381bb01b4f0d5b1c02bd31c2 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
ddce699649093a69 | articles | ‘Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy’: From UN Peacekeeper to U.S. Sentinel State. (With John Price). | 2022-12-02 | ‘Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy’: From UN Peacekeeper to U.S. Sentinel State In this long read, author John Price works with Noam Chomsky to respond to Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy. December 2, 2022. rabble.ca . In a recent article in the Ottawa Hill-Times , journalist David Crane asked an important question: “Is Can... | 20,542 | 08bd474a834a5456e0d568d91acea453cea21cc41c4137204d7c0642a6e5df0b | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
8a510a1490a6b2a2 | articles | If We Want Humanity to Survive, We Must Cooperate With China. | 2022-08-15 | If We Want Humanity to Survive, We Must Cooperate With China Nathan J. Robinson & Noam Chomsky August 15, 2022. Current Affairs . “China is our enemy,” Donald Trump declared repeatedly. “These are our enemies. These are not people who understand niceness.” Accordingly, when Trump was in office, his administration “took... | 39,675 | d6e5f427f3a3e70c3023f4b12cd35c7de0136f7235e23454ab431b23566f1293 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
3eb03629804e0be7 | articles | What Do We Owe Afghanistan? | 2022-08-03 | What Do We Owe Afghanistan? Nathan J. Robinson & Noam Chomsky August 3, 2022. Current Affairs . “The oppressed people of afghanistan will know the generosity of america and our allies.” — George W. Bush, Oct. 7, 2001 The 9/11 attacks could have been dealt with as a crime. This would have been sane and consistent with p... | 49,519 | 547f86b9c5f173e6cd2da9359e4fdd47e745bc8d5b4c2071d77d501379284ba1 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
eba7ef726a7453cc | articles | The Biden Administration Must Immediately Unfreeze Afghanistan’s Assets and End the Devastating Sanctions. | 2022-02-18 | The Biden Administration Must Immediately Unfreeze Afghanistan’s Assets and End the Devastating Sanctions Noam Chomsky with Tariq Ali, Richard Falk, Sara Roy, et al. February 18, 2022. CounterPunch . The worst humanitarian catastrophe on earth is unfolding before our eyes. Afghanistan’s healthcare infrastructure is col... | 4,346 | 7a64911f5865f52bbd7d26d7686764fe774b742364b81150f69251fcc595b07d | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
f6377208e57ccbe1 | articles | Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad Extend Solidarity With Residents of Marielle Vive Camp. | 2021-12-01 | Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad Extend Solidarity With Residents of Marielle Vive Camp Statement from Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad December 1, 2021. Newsclick . The São Paulo Court of Justice on November 23 authorized the eviction of 450 families living in the Marielle Vive (‘Marielle Lives’) Camp of the Landless Rural W... | 2,317 | 3e33f6347762d6edeceb6ab66afda1adc1342a783fbb01003c8e73b48d13cc06 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
40e28a17f15762dc | articles | Chomsky, Wexler on the passing of Lila Gleitman (1929-2021). | 1929 | Chomsky, Wexler on the passing of Lila Gleitman (1929-2021) Honoring Prof. Lila Gleitman of the University of Pennsylvania August 16, 2021. Whamit! The Weekly Newsletter of MIT Linguistics . Last week, we received the unspeakably sad news that Prof. Lila Gleitman of the University of Pennsylvania had passed away at the... | 6,572 | 38c62eeb861ea928cf7389f079aeeb50c62b0e161e45468cc951d4fd5e8511f2 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
f865ed7e3f620786 | articles | Chomsky and Prashad: The reality behind the US 'withdrawal' from Afghanistan. | 2021-05-07 | Chomsky and Prashad: The reality behind the US ‘withdrawal’ from Afghanistan Noam Chomsky with Vijay Prashad May 7, 2021. AlterNet . The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 was criminal. It was criminal because of the immense force used to demolish Afghanistan’s physical infrastructure and to break open its so... | 8,384 | 5d7997006372a34e5383eb23923190f6045a6e92e28e9bca18e2ac4f9b6419d3 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
40e22d5bc84c454a | articles | Inquiry needed into govts’ Covid-19 failures. | 2021-01-22 | Inquiry needed into govts’ Covid-19 failures With Vijay Prashad. January 22, 2021. Asia Times . Warnings that the oxygen supply was running out in the city of Manaus, Brazil, came to local and federal government officials a week before the calamity led to the deaths by asphyxiation of patients afflicted with Covid-19. ... | 2,879 | 8d2c08ec65b63a55d69c84f29427bc471f800547918660c933f6fb280e0f1e4f | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
0ab67366efe0661f | articles | Chomsky and Prashad: There are 3 major threats to life on Earth that we must address in 2021. | 2021 | Chomsky and Prashad: There are 3 major threats to life on Earth that we must address in 2021 With Vijay Prashad. January 5, 2021. AlterNet . Large parts of the world—outside of China and a few other countries—face a runaway virus, which has not been stopped because of criminal incompetence by governments. That these go... | 6,803 | 3291e17e0f0a00766ffeb6a9e59048b996ce952f79a2a067fba6e3a1591c47b4 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
ae22d61c1e3b425b | articles | Julian Assange is not on trial for his personality – but here’s how the US government made you focus on it. | 2020-09-09 | Julian Assange is not on trial for his personality – but here’s how the US government made you focus on it Noam Chomsky with Alice Walker September 9, 2020. The Independent . On Monday Julian Assange was driven to the Old Bailey to continue his fight against extradition to the United States, where the Trump administrat... | 4,315 | 78294b6a5c1b9084df2661b2331d55f98ff0aa0aad2c38c9c837e8c2c682171c | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
3f4fc8085d32a9f9 | articles | On the Eviction of 450 families from Quilombo Campo Grande, Brazil. | 2020-08-26 | On the Eviction of 450 families from Quilombo Campo Grande, Brazil Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad August 26, 2020. Socialist Project’s The Bullet . During the second week of August in Brazil, the ruthlessness of state violence by the government of President Jair Bolsonaro was on full display against the Quilombo Campo ... | 2,548 | 506c1b07d2affa1ee2da619f57bc66fbb12205baabd24cdf24e711fa7dc9718f | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
b26b55b06ade49ae | articles | Noam Chomsky: On the weaponisation of false anti-Semitism charges against radical progressive movements. | 2020-07-31 | Noam Chomsky: On the weaponisation of false anti-Semitism charges against radical progressive movements Noam Chomsky July 31, 2020. DiEM25 . Fifty years ago, the distinguished Israel statesman Abba Eban wrote that “One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between an... | 1,238 | e63a6cc41fa049205304309ddc446192feaa94fabe62fee87d65e995757db87e | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
a279326a72a67126 | articles | Noam Chomsky: A Green New Deal Can Create Jobs and Livelihoods. | 2020-04-22 | Noam Chomsky: A Green New Deal Can Create Jobs and Livelihoods From the foreword to Stan Cox’s The Green New Deal and Beyond April 22, 2020. Literary Hub . This essay is based on interviews with Chomsky conducted by C.J. Polychroniou, Amy Goodman, and Harrison Samphir. * History is all too rich in records of horrendous... | 10,299 | c576404195d1c3715170807ca27db7693fec1278ba542fb7356e779105977a40 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
e38ac789780aea3f | articles | Letters From the May 4/11, 2020, Issue. | 2020 | Letters From the May 4/11, 2020, Issue In Response to Susie Linfield April 21, 2020. The Nation . The Truth About Lies Susie Linfield warns us against “telling lies” [Letters, April 6], then proceeds to demonstrate her commitment to exactly that by claiming, falsely, that I have manufactured “entirely fictitious claims... | 3,022 | 04b29c3546b65ebd849f001037ac7a3d1fc56a5023e867cc5f4d001e9715ed92 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
23500e95033dedca | articles | Congress Must Forcibly Limit Trump’s Power to Attack Iran. | 2020-01-08 | Congress Must Forcibly Limit Trump’s Power to Attack Iran By Noam Chomsky , Richard Falk , Daniel Ellsberg January 8, 2020. Truthout. The unlawful and provocative assassination of Iran’s top general, Qassim Suleimani, has already given rise to an escalating spiral of lethal events. The greatest risks are to stumble int... | 3,642 | 91e732449a8f824f37f24df28a0c3b1c40912ac882ea9f5461103a39030fd03a | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
6b0cb9f442fc127e | articles | Chomsky’s response to Chris Knight’s chapter in the new ‘Responsibility of Intellectuals’ book. | 2019-09-05 | Chomsky’s response to Chris Knight’s chapter in the new ‘Responsibility of Intellectuals’ book Chomsky’s latest response in the debate September 5, 2019. Libcom.org. I’ve skipped Chris Knight’s contribution [until now], which has no place in a serious discussion of [the responsibility of intellectuals], except, perhaps... | 24,906 | 31a4a0f4029002097a5301131252a346da8918af6c4c11daf373a6210ee6ada7 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
b48f203f8b225290 | articles | One of Chávez’s Most Arbitrary Acts Has Finally Been Reversed. | 2019-07-22 | One of Chávez’s Most Arbitrary Acts Has Finally Been Reversed Noam Chomsky with Leonardo Vivas and Charlie Clements July 22, 2019. The New York Times . July 5, Venezuela’s Independence Day, came with a precious piece of news for all those who hope for the country’s future: Michele Bachelet, the United Nations High Comm... | 4,948 | 504aa111ca0263e430adaf2f36d7833f26636e0ea8fde7cba230bd131b2eac4f | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
73ea5836f172a70f | articles | Noam Chomsky: We Must Stop War with Iran Before It’s Too Late. | 2019-05-21 | Noam Chomsky: We Must Stop War with Iran Before It’s Too Late Noam Chomsky for In These Times May 21, 2019. In These Times . The threat of a U.S. attack on Iran is all too real. Led by John Bolton, the Trump administration is spinning tales of Iranian misdeeds. It is easy to concoct pretexts for aggression. Hi... | 13,297 | 522e2ff6d5f78d56458b503bec0d8bf9183f9def31c4e1be64d358090cc909d9 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
1e9e069655b98a7a | articles | I Just Visited Lula, the World's Most Prominent Political Prisoner. A “Soft Coup” in Brazil's Election Will Have Global Consequences. | 2018-10-02 | I Just Visited Lula, the World’s Most Prominent Political Prisoner. A “Soft Coup” in Brazil’s Election Will Have Global Consequences Noam Chomsky for The Intercept October 2, 2018. The Intercept . Prisons are reminiscent of Tolstoy’s famous observation about unhappy families: Each “is unhappy in its own way,” though th... | 21,763 | dc876ac3f597e9485823ae724b2cb31c3f4af8aa5cfee8c315227053ad5be3ba | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
b907bbe655a28ab1 | articles | US Isolation. | 2016-12-30 | US Isolation By Noam Chomsky Chomsky.info , December 30, 2016 On 23 December 2016, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2334 unanimously, US abstaining. The Resolution reaffirmed “that the policy and practices of Israel in establishing settlements in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967 h... | 16,924 | 26c03a578dca5c95a17816a4af2bb529767fbcf8575f2b1a78b238b5d15da848 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
f709379500b74686 | articles | An Eight Point Brief for LEV (Lesser Evil Voting). | 2016-06-15 | An Eight Point Brief for LEV (Lesser Evil Voting) By John Halle and Noam Chomsky JohnHalle.com , June 15, 2016 (Note: Professor Chomsky requests that he not be contacted with responses to this piece.) Preamble: Among the elements of the weak form of democracy enshrined in the constitution, presidential elections contin... | 8,810 | fe48f1bca93e0f92d34a0cdc0bf68fd98bbf5a87f299c1cd987ed4cd2e2b83b7 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
c4d4d4f9c08e578a | articles | Noam Chomsky for Refugee Crisis. | 2016-05-05 | Noam Chomsky for Refugee Crisis Noam Chomsky DiEM25 , May 5, 2016 In some countries, there is a real refugee crisis. In Lebanon, for example, where perhaps one-quarter of the population consists of refugees from Syria, over and above a flood of refugees from Palestine and Iraq. Other poor and strife-ridden countries of... | 3,193 | addae3d74ab33e732d04f61d878397e0ae07f4b7f80cc0da5df1b35c1b814ef5 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
a552155037f0eab0 | articles | Turkey continues to muzzle democracy’s watchdogs. | 2015-11-12 | Turkey continues to muzzle democracy’s watchdogs By Noam Chomsky and Christophe Deloire The Washington Post , November 12, 2015 Journalists are the “watchdogs” of democracy, according to the European Court of Human Rights. Anyone who wants to control a country without being troubled by criticism tries to muzzle reporte... | 3,786 | 28de77e7d32c0372fe65ed3147f9bdf3d1b05273a3d18c73ef54d076ca9c9f78 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
f925efd6e037ac19 | articles | "The Iranian Threat" Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace? | 2015-08-20 | “The Iranian Threat” Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace? Noam Chomsky tomdispatch.com , August 20, 2015 “The Iranian Threat” Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace? By Noam Chomsky Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 nations,... | 24,966 | 707e65ed501e7f54b76e4727e7bd8b0fa51f08338e1b5ef29a209964d8b80960 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
0db47080b4e643e3 | articles | One Day in the Life of a Reader of the New York Times. | 2015-04-06 | One Day in the Life of a Reader of the New York Times Noam Chomsky chomsky.info , April 6, 2015 A front-page article is devoted to a flawed story about a campus rape in the journal Rolling Stone, exposed in the leading academic journal of media critique. So severe is this departure from journalistic integrity that it i... | 8,779 | 1761af74b83f9bf03efd486cd3b630420b7f321381ceb65fe9a8d8f97d43dadf | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
8347dd31a0937572 | articles | Magna Carta Messed Up the World, Here’s How to Fix It. | 2015-03-23 | Magna Carta Messed Up the World, Here’s How to Fix It: The “logic” of capitalist development has left a nightmare of environmental destruction in its wake. Noam Chomsky The Nation , March 23, 2015 In a few months, we will be commemorating the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta—commemorating, but not celeb... | 11,872 | af9671d25f42bbf6223e80888c83d5c22668c3c5c7b506cf5619de31b58c92d2 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
70cb7d1fbe02e625 | articles | A Brief History of America's Cold-Blooded, Terroristic Treatment of Cuba. | 2015-02-05 | A Brief History of America’s Cold-Blooded, Terroristic Treatment of Cuba Noam Chomsky Alternet , February 5, 2015 The establishment of diplomatic ties between the US and Cuba has been widely hailed as an event of historic importance. Correspondent John Lee Anderson, who has written perceptively about the region, sums u... | 17,770 | 34185a55dc48b97f5320e3d507fe4370815a638bcf54d62fe8df48f3aa9c7d0e | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
8cd7d0ade0ddcdf2 | articles | Chomsky: Paris attacks show hypocrisy of West’s outrage. | 2015-01-20 | Chomsky: Paris attacks show hypocrisy of West’s outrage Noam Chomsky CNN.com , January 20, 2015 After the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, which killed 12 people including the editor and four other cartoonists, and the murder of four Jews at a kosher supermarket shortly after, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls decla... | 9,019 | 857a8250b62794299293bdb1aeb5288c91cc0d09002660429a26be03423c5966 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
16dfa7516e4bb531 | articles | We Are All … Fill in the Blank. | 2015-01-10 | We Are All … Fill in the Blank Noam Chomsky chomsky.info , January 10, 2015 The world reacted with horror to the murderous attack on the French satirical journal Charlie Hebdo. In the New York Times, veteran Europe correspondent Steven Erlanger graphically described the immediate aftermath, what many call France’s 9/11... | 5,848 | 1e5ee963147d1b6467e8c262719e44d5f53cec83442b404b1cfe1cbd62c8ca61 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
9694b597114c5bf1 | articles | Obama’s Historic Move. | 2014-12-14 | Obama’s Historic Move Noam Chomsky chomsky.info , December 15, 2014 The establishment of diplomatic ties between the US and Cuba has been widely hailed as an event of historic importance. Correspondent John Lee Anderson, who has written perceptively about the region, sums up a general reaction among liberal intellectua... | 17,724 | 5fa6d07bdb5785e1be753f468c4afd4492afb276015a6fc29c7657607e5607a5 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
0c72b53d56eaf31b | articles | Elites Have Forced America into a National Psychosis to Keep Us Embroiled in Imperial Wars. | 2014-12-02 | Elites Have Forced America into a National Psychosis to Keep Us Embroiled in Imperial Wars Noam Chomsky Alternet , December 2, 2014 “War is the health of the State,” wrote social critic Randolph Bourne in a classic essay as America entered World War I: “It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresisti... | 7,927 | 68f6c846ca5a1b1c4cc3e2bd6bdc9e3c9352c8e3528382fe28e24b38019f1545 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
c52900a6ed36069a | articles | How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey. | 2014-12-01 | How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey Noam Chomsky Alternet , December 1, 2014 Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have recently been held in Britain, Canada, Chile, Taiwan and elsewhere. California is also a battleground. The Los Angeles Times reports on another chapt... | 6,924 | bd063210cb98f5b693655ebad8d68ee346dbe8279a64341bc1d854cb6984e965 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
1853a66081019660 | articles | The Leading Terrorist State. | 2014-11-03 | The Leading Terrorist State By Noam Chomsky Truthout , November 3, 2014 “It’s official: The U.S. is the world’s leading terrorist state, and proud of it.” That should have been the headline for the lead story in The New York Times on Oct. 15, which was more politely titled “CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism Abo... | 6,696 | 35e19eb6dbf28d7847f7641b678209c3fda8f52482628b1eece2de2edabf6808 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
2593cfcdfaf4787a | articles | The Long, Shameful History of American Terrorism. | 2014-11-03 | The Long, Shameful History of American Terrorism Noam Chomsky In These Times , November 3, 2014 “It’s official: The U.S. is the world’s leading terrorist state, and proud of it.” That should have been the headline for the lead story in the New York Times on October 15, which was more politely titled “CIA Study of Cover... | 6,722 | 9ef0d922fd659372d9c5524fd01b839940c91e6f6117ddad35a1d6a8f96280d4 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
6d9d6b0240856ccc | articles | Facts on the Ground. | 2014-10-02 | Facts on the Ground Noam Chomsky Truthout , October 2, 2014 On Aug. 26, Israel and the Palestinian Authority both accepted a cease-fire agreement after a 50-day Israeli assault on Gaza that left 2,100 Palestinians dead and vast landscapes of destruction behind. The agreement calls for an end to military action by Israe... | 7,634 | 51eab6c1d71ca06eaf01f4ade20275d1783b8905c43fe079027349ef62f876f5 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
d8c1d8eb3e320358 | articles | Only One Thing Will Make Israel Change Course. | 2014-10-02 | Only One Thing Will Make Israel Change Course Noam Chomsky In These Times , October 2, 2014 On August 26, Israel and the Palestinian Authority both accepted a cease-fire agreement after a 50-day Israeli assault on Gaza that left 2,100 Palestinians dead and vast landscapes of destruction behind. The agreement calls for ... | 7,668 | d99d491da932e01ea4d57b449c92b654c8e3a1b007270016db0b3a7e5dbeb78e | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
ade18ce9183ece08 | articles | The Crass and Brutal Approach Used to Keep Gaza Mired in Misery. | 2014-10-02 | The Crass and Brutal Approach Used to Keep Gaza Mired in Misery Noam Chomsky Alternet , October 2, 2014 On Aug. 26, Israel and the Palestinian Authority both accepted a cease-fire agreement after a 50-day Israeli assault on Gaza that left 2,100 Palestinians dead and vast landscapes of destruction behind. The agreement ... | 7,678 | 9b1ec885f941000d30da7c3dc66885bf0371883604a35850b31580d11a4bb0a6 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
acc8ffcd4339b01e | articles | Ceasefires in Which Violations Never Cease. | 2014-09-09 | Ceasefires in Which Violations Never Cease What’s Next for Israel, Hamas, and Gaza? By Noam Chomsky Tom Dispatch , September 9, 2014 On August 26th, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) both accepted a ceasefire agreement after a 50-day Israeli assault on Gaza that left 2,100 Palestinians dead and vast landscapes ... | 21,142 | 6a091813d22ac0888e65515f5410dd7076293cac8d2d9e9e2ab585cf86d6d398 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
0518aef22cc7f510 | articles | Ceasefires in Which Violations Never Cease – What’s Next for Israel, Hamas, and Gaza? | 2014-09-09 | Ceasefires in Which Violations Never Cease What’s Next for Israel, Hamas, and Gaza? Noam Chomsky TomDistpatch.com , September 9, 2014 On August 26th, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) both accepted a ceasefire agreement after a 50-day Israeli assault on Gaza that left 2,100 Palestinians dead and vast landscapes... | 21,144 | 5f017cbe2202cb4cf604b41ecf94f10d48d765afed5877dc50ac965cb97e02b4 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
e56eea0043f01072 | articles | Owl of Minerva's View: ISIS and Our Times. | 2014-09-05 | Owl of Minerva’s View: ISIS and Our Times Noam Chomsky Truthout , September 5, 2014 It is not pleasant to contemplate the thoughts that must be passing through the mind of the Owl of Minerva as the dusk falls and she undertakes the task of interpreting the era of human civilization, which may now be approaching its ing... | 6,261 | f441df036b1228c776140135daed76a1cc6c18dc3a8bb0086718cdb41d792981 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
5fb82cdfbd588d34 | articles | The End of History? The short, strange era of human civilization would appear to be drawing to a close. | 2014-09-04 | The End of History? The short, strange era of human civilization would appear to be drawing to a close Noam Chomsky In These Times , September 4, 2014 It is not pleasant to contemplate the thoughts that must be passing through the mind of the Owl of Minerva as the dusk falls and she undertakes the task of interpreting ... | 6,370 | 796f58cb145598906aa28c12c91a288271806b4deeda76e4786b486535760559 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
26325749970bf01a | articles | How Could Language Have Evolved? | 2014-08-26 | How Could Language Have Evolved? Johan J. Bolhuis, Ian Tattersall, Noam Chomsky, Robert C. Berwick PLOS Biology , August 26, 2014 Citation: Bolhuis JJ, Tattersall I, Chomsky N, Berwick RC (2014) How Could Language Have Evolved? PLoS Biol 12(8): e1001934. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001934 Abstract The evolution of the fa... | 27,149 | 40b5878a48d1d1f8ffd4b7733e7621345223326d5826af746f16b3d0cdbe67f7 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
fa63a3bb0ab38044 | articles | Outrage. | 2014-08-14 | Outrage Noam Chomsky chomsky.info , August 14, 2014 Almost every day brings news of awful crimes, but some are so heinous, so horrendous and malicious, that they dwarf all else. One of those rare events took place on July 17, when Malaysian Airlines MH17 was shot down in Eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people. The Guardia... | 27,427 | a858383a434975a4f72b261bc636fe86037f205313aa8733b3241ec02937c64f | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
89a6d912d521474f | articles | How Many Minutes to Midnight? Hiroshima Day 2014. | 2014 | How Many Minutes to Midnight? Hiroshima Day 2014 Noam Chomsky TomDistpatch.com , August 5, 2014 If some extraterrestrial species were compiling a history of Homo sapiens, they might well break their calendar into two eras: BNW (before nuclear weapons) and NWE (the nuclear weapons era). The latter era, of course, opened... | 20,017 | e2134de696208402ea25034af97c16ad56327115a8d57ecc8ecb36867918666a | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
61d379259d742294 | articles | Nightmare in Gaza. | 2014-08-03 | Nightmare in Gaza By Noam Chomsky Truthout , August 3, 2014 Amid all the horrors unfolding in the latest Israeli offensive in Gaza, Israel’s goal is simple: quiet-for-quiet, a return to the norm. For the West Bank, the norm is that Israel continues its illegal construction of settlements and infrastructure so that it c... | 9,259 | 28584c23dc49ec6c1b8ecfd7376545bdee8a5e08c7313e60d457bbee973c7f62 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
5a3dad12d101f992 | articles | The Sledgehammer Worldview. | 2014-07-07 | The Sledgehammer Worldview Noam Chomsky Truthout , July 7, 2014 The front page of The New York Times on June 26 featured a photo of women mourning a murdered Iraqi. He is one of the innumerable victims of the ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) campaign in which the Iraqi army, armed and trained by the U.S. for many... | 8,124 | c07c04ee2c82e18af915413cbcfd5005203e9a9c8c4b9ff8849b5274a56ebf4a | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
ca198416cf587b4a | articles | Whose Security? | 2014-07-01 | Whose Security? How Washington Protects Itself and the Corporate Sector By Noam Chomsky Tom Dispatch , July 1, 2014 The question of how foreign policy is determined is a crucial one in world affairs. In these comments, I can only provide a few hints as to how I think the subject can be productively explored, keeping to... | 26,161 | 91512d65b4ad7c794a8eee829ad6abb91e083b702dabd75a8cdf5b7a12c7a90c | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
991fbc2c04dea0b9 | articles | A Surveillance State Beyond Imagination Is Being Created in One of the World’s Freest Countries. | 2014-06-02 | A Surveillance State Beyond Imagination Is Being Created in One of the World’s Freest Countries Noam Chomsky Alternet , June 2, 2014 In the past several months, we have been provided with instructive lessons on the nature of state power and the forces that drive state policy. And on a closely related matter: the subtle... | 6,126 | 38a8b189676182c126dc7899f33c388045acbabf308fc2e5bf238f16ce481a86 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
e94fc7307e307075 | articles | Edward Snowden, the World's "Most Wanted Criminal". | 2014-06-02 | Edward Snowden, the World’s “Most Wanted Criminal” By Noam Chomsky Truthout , June 2, 2014 In the past several months, we have been provided with instructive lessons on the nature of state power and the forces that drive state policy. And on a closely related matter: the subtle, differentiated concept of transparency. ... | 6,084 | d6443d7d8c7e20bf823b5ede56cbf055a72184373586327954b5a7b0d4f941bd | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
ba76463a368f3be5 | articles | The Politics of Red Lines: Putin’s takeover of Crimea scares U.S. leaders because it challenges America’s global dominance. | 2014-05-01 | The Politics of Red Lines: Putin’s takeover of Crimea scares U.S. leaders because it challenges America’s global dominance Noam Chomsky In These Times , May 1, 2014 The current Ukraine crisis is serious and threatening, so much so that some commentators even compare it to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Columnist Tha... | 7,251 | 5b2a6e1512323f0f47d918539d6fe11253a33ed0a8c721b382098e991cc34299 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
c81366de1eb7b632 | articles | Security and State Power / The Prospects for Survival. | 2014-02-28 | Security and State Power / The Prospects for Survival Noam Chomsky Truthout, Part I , Part II , March 3, 2014 (adapted from a lecture by Noam Chomsky on February 28, 2014 in Santa Barbara, CA, sponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation) A leading principle of international relations theory is that the state’s highes... | 15,615 | 89f3f7b367a88a94c9deb02257e45184188c73b2e02c39544e1b60d326532aa6 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
3ecfc1a8ea5ee8c8 | articles | Prerogatives of Power. | 2014-02-05 | Prerogatives of Power By Noam Chomsky Truthout , February 5, 2014 As the year 2013 drew to an end, the BBC reported on the results of the WIN/Gallup International poll on the question: “Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?” The United States was the champion by a substantial ma... | 7,117 | 294531f3807c7d4ca72f5a6fdba38141728cc6d97dc5ad5d92d99e1bb3a23b90 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
890a7abcb529e2dd | articles | The Greatest Threat to World Peace. | 2014-02-05 | The Greatest Threat to World Peace The United States polls higher than Pakistan, Iran and China as a perceived menace to peace Noam Chomsky In These Times , February 5, 2014 As the year 2013 drew to an end, the BBC reported on the results of the WIN/Gallup International poll on the question: “Which country do you think... | 7,208 | 9f5e4299f0e2fbcd7a9ed9127cb49ac0c3af4e9f74167944dde9a06fcc3c2f83 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
902b0f6eecd415c3 | articles | What is the Common Good? | 2013-12-06 | What is the Common Good? Noam Chomsky Truthout , January 7, 2014 (Adapted from a lecture by Noam Chomsky at Columbia University on December 6, 2013) Humans are social beings, and the kind of creature that a person becomes depends crucially on the social, cultural and institutional circumstances of his life. We are ther... | 11,473 | 681d6eb774b159cbe827a526fbce0e5dfc809b1669ab7a4e30a7c8aa846ab352 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
55cb1c0b03f42b33 | articles | Foreword to Michael Albert, Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism. | 2014 | Foreword to Michael Albert, Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism Noam Chomsky Zed Books , 2014 Throughout much of the world there is growing resistance to the severe harm that has resulted from the neoliberal policies of the past generation. Latin America has progressed farthest in overthrowing this harsh regime, in ... | 2,941 | c172971b5f8178b44a1209decf3bfda815a4b10eb33f77eb99e3fd13912d5469 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
2353876c576f9b0f | articles | The Dangerous Rogue States Operating in the Mideast — U.S. and Israel. | 2013-12-04 | The Dangerous Rogue States Operating in the Mideast — U.S. and Israel Noam Chomsky Alternet , December 4, 2013 An interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear policies that will provide a six-month period for substantive negotiations was announced on Nov. 24. Michael Gordon, a reporter for The New York Times, wrote, “It was the... | 7,805 | 31fcc6e252ef25e2fa52b4c681c87cc3e31adb055fa3db77b460c31f164c775b | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
e3aff0a4c2a5fa73 | articles | The US Elections: Outrage, Misguided. | 2013-11-17 | The US Elections: Outrage, Misguided By Noam Chomsky Truthout , November 17, 2013 The U.S. midterm elections register a level of anger, fear and disillusionment in the country like nothing I can recall in my lifetime. Since the Democrats are in power, they bear the brunt of the revulsion over our current socioeconomic ... | 6,487 | b35d27feaecc4f4dbeb7eb0fde51c2fe52417343b0a8e3019fc78dffdddd3693 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
81da69e75623ee1d | articles | America’s Going Rogue. | 2013-11-06 | America’s Going Rogue The U.S. snubs treaties, obligations and universal principles. By Noam Chomsky In These Times , November 6, 2013 During the latest episode of the Washington farce that has astonished a bemused world, a Chinese commentator wrote that if the United States cannot be a responsible member of the world ... | 7,131 | adaf738d34947b039852c4340a815c5be33eac998957a50e9035c1d51eae1906 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
ee6d9f20435cb344 | articles | De-Americanizing the World. | 2013-11-05 | De-Americanizing the World Noam Chomsky Truthout , November 5, 2013 During the latest episode of the Washington farce that has astonished a bemused world, a Chinese commentator wrote that if the United States cannot be a responsible member of the world system, perhaps the world should become “de-Americanized” — and sep... | 7,013 | d8b96332876fd290921859b017d4376ba8a6bab76b8a5530cfd692c86b71b409 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
f264e100c88e0530 | articles | The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel. | 2013-10-24 | The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel Noam Chomsky Mondoweiss , October 24, 2013 On July 13, former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin issued a dire warning to the government of Israel: either it will reach some kind of two-state settlement or there will be a “shift to a ... | 17,292 | 6e3ce963cadf6ce50495a96096ead4fcc501d934d0f251c4f7b4670315a0fcd7 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
ad50b2dde8f31b1b | articles | The Obama Doctrine. | 2013-10-06 | The Obama Doctrine Noam Chomsky Truthout , October 6, 2013 The recent Obama-Putin tiff over American exceptionalism reignited an ongoing debate over the Obama Doctrine: Is the president veering toward isolationism? Or will he proudly carry the banner of exceptionalism? The debate is narrower than it may seem. There is ... | 7,306 | 55c4813099d7076a7976d0ab1c45bbaedfc5d693d03d7b5d710895b6ec90bec4 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
18004ff1966b005d | articles | Hidden Power and Built Form: The Politics Behind the Architecture. | 2013-10-01 | Hidden Power and Built Form: The Politics Behind the Architecture Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky, interview by Graham Cairns, Hidden Power and Built Form: The Politics Behind the Architecture, 3.3 Oct. (2013) Architecture_MPS (ISSN: 2050-9006) “The US-Mexican border, like most borders, was established by violence — and its ... | 48,533 | 186610705718037ef568b6c76a6c3c8ec9a3f09d89fa05fe30533d12fba7ed16 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
d4af117ac928717d | articles | Middle East peace talks a complete farce. | 2013-09-05 | Middle East peace talks a complete farce The activist calls negotiations a cover for Israel’s takeover of the territories it wishes to control By Noam Chomsky Salon , September 5, 2013 The Israel-Palestine negotiations currently underway in Jerusalem coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Oslo Accords. A look at the... | 9,176 | 1c0a9f5d91685f6b30914e6f0122dd69aa0caf83a761d3790048a6a6a72a3104 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
11ad0baec774b4e6 | articles | The "Honest Broker" is Crooked. | 2013-09-02 | The “Honest Broker” is Crooked By Noam Chomsky Truthout , September 2, 2013 The Israel-Palestine negotiations currently underway in Jerusalem coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Oslo Accords. A look at the character of the accords and their fate may help explain the prevailing skepticism about the current exercis... | 6,912 | 58bf87c6b8a55acfb3720e20955ef3573939faa6bd903b15dcf5f1f02386041f | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
252b914dd04d0159 | articles | Why the Israel-Palestine ‘Negotiations’ Are a Complete Farce. | 2013-09-02 | Why the Israel-Palestine ‘Negotiations’ Are a Complete Farce Noam Chomsky Alternet , September 2, 2013 The Israel-Palestine negotiations currently underway in Jerusalem coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Oslo Accords. A look at the character of the accords and their fate may help explain the prevailing skepticis... | 4,433 | 24790e4d0404f13fb5f7661caabf44eea72ee2d30811d47f8a6fe43367e5b0eb | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
bba62779c8a01b04 | articles | Israel’s West Bank plans will leave Palestinians very little. | 2013-08-16 | Israel’s West Bank plans will leave Palestinians very little Noam Chomsky CNN.com , August 16, 2013 The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks beginning in Jerusalem proceed within a framework of assumptions that merit careful thought. One prevailing assumption is that there are two options: either a two-state settlement will... | 6,836 | 4d74352a4a1c88dcd904e1c7ec40eebdbae61ba6c9c07e534601c234f1bc326f | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
ce8bc49cab5882dd | articles | Is Edward J. Snowden Aboard This Plane? | 2013-08-01 | Is Edward J. Snowden Aboard This Plane? By Noam Chomsky Truthout , August 1, 2013 On July 9, the Organization of American States held a special session to discuss the shocking behavior of the European states that had refused to allow the government plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales to enter their airspace. ... | 7,092 | 9d0be68f62986ea239de2ea37bfd7f69062d99497283dfc70d9ac7598dade21b | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
e02e3f8a54f0dbd6 | articles | Fantasies. | 2013-07-21 | Fantasies Noam Chomsky ZNet , July 21, 2013 I’ve received a number of requests to comment on the post: “Slavoj Žižek Responds to Noam Chomsky: ‘I Don’t Know a Guy Who Was So Often Empirically Wrong'” (http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/slavoj-zizek-responds-to-noam-chomsky.html). I had read it, with some interest, hopi... | 9,244 | a691ea26dbddb09084f08a9fce3bed7dc3ef5bb1ef8c60aca7fdbba4ad848598 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
4fe99a49c9adc4b9 | articles | The US Remains Guilty in Guatemala. | 2013-06-06 | The US Remains Guilty in Guatemala By Noam Chomsky Truthout , June 6, 2013 On Mother’s Day, May 12, The Boston Globe featured a photo of a young woman with her toddler son sleeping in her arms. The woman, of Mayan Indian heritage, had crossed the U.S. border seven times while pregnant, only to be caught and shipped bac... | 7,228 | 132926c7f00c669165c768d6266a08b8ad6ed7d966d09c67215a825ccb61f16f | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
3146377611138bce | articles | Humanity Imperiled: The Path to Disaster. | 2013-06-04 | Humanity Imperiled: The Path to Disaster Noam Chomsky TomDispatch.com , June 4, 2013 What is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So imagine that you’re an extraterrestrial observer who is trying to figure out what’s happening here or, for that m... | 15,444 | d1b79ba0732513e2b21fb7bb6ff71433cfcd067460fdefd8ca796592295da4dd | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
41dabbcc5250e940 | articles | Boston and Beyond. | 2013-05-02 | Boston and Beyond By Noam Chomsky Truthout , May 2, 2013 April is usually a cheerful month in New England, with the first signs of spring, and the harsh winter at last receding. Not this year. There are few in Boston who were not touched in some way by the marathon bombings on April 15 and the tense week that followed.... | 6,581 | 5519b88f23e13454202cef34742c9a95538a3da03a5f974f4aad6ceab40a4532 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
6987a005f3f28816 | articles | In Palestine, Dignity and Violence. | 2013-04-02 | In Palestine, Dignity and Violence By Noam Chomsky Truthout , April 2, 2013 (Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from the Edward W. Said lecture given by Noam Chomsky in London on March 18, 2013.) The Swedish novelist Henning Mankell tells of an experience in Mozambique during the civil war horrors there 25 years ag... | 7,204 | 382dc3bb0547bb0357d66a7fec80b5f0893f41061e686579782541376315714b | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
f5a289dd8a2e32e4 | articles | The Cruelty That Keeps Empires Alive. | 2013-04-02 | The Cruelty That Keeps Empires Alive Like many other oppressive countries, Israel’s chief tools of control are through humiliation, degradation and terror. By Noam Chomsky AlterNet , April 2, 2013 Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from the Edward W. Said lecture given by Noam Chomsky in London on March 18, 2013. T... | 7,323 | 3097af86c94192645dfb6a10e6204b41265b5ad81c8b52fe7a3451f060f59e72 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
80961cbc35282480 | articles | Can Civilization Survive Capitalism? | 2013-03-05 | Can Civilization Survive Capitalism? Noam Chomsky Alternet , March 5, 2013 The term “capitalism” is commonly used to refer to the U.S. economic system, with substantial state intervention ranging from subsidies for creative innovation to the “too-big-to-fail” government insurance policy for banks. The system is highly ... | 9,819 | fe93315815c2703e72b2217ec9de87270764ae14dd003978d62113660687f652 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
4f6bab5b04e0339a | articles | Palestine 2012 — Gaza and the UN resolution. | 2012 | Palestine 2012 — Gaza and the UN resolution Noam Chomsky chomsky.info , December 1, 2012 An old man in Gaza held a placard that reads: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all but I am t... | 16,913 | 486149a87effd47ab152b0e30049af4f86eb9653cb33878500efeef349fe06ac | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
f26edfd7b1a1f7fc | articles | Impressions of Gaza. | 2012-11-04 | Impressions of Gaza Noam Chomsky chomsky.info , November 4, 2012 Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force. And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest o... | 17,889 | 0a6bbc9a52c2fcfc7f0503e81856b7b4ee0715c6d14b16dd5e7b7ccafeeb3f83 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
1db6c5d0ce97917d | articles | The Week the World Stood Still: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Ownership of the World. | 2012-10-15 | The Week the World Stood Still: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Ownership of the World Noam Chomsky Tomdispatch.com , October 15, 2012 The world stood still 50 years ago during the last week of October, from the moment when it learned that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba until the crisis was off... | 32,365 | 02aeb0efd122b4111b29a540bcc65040a28f93ca26d7c5445e2ad925515cec09 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
dba6ab379e086f30 | articles | Issues that Obama and Romney Avoid. | 2012-10-10 | Issues that Obama and Romney Avoid Noam Chomsky Truthout , October 10, 2012 With the quadrennial presidential election extravaganza reaching its peak, it’s useful to ask how the political campaigns are dealing with the most crucial issues we face. The simple answer is: badly, or not at all. If so, some important questi... | 7,390 | cd8b58468fed47c54ee3a1dec4790957780311f7e2a5ff8a5968ebcc451b78a9 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
fd27964fca0c96d9 | articles | Issues that Obama and Romney Avoid, Versión en castellano: Temas que Romney y Obama evitan. | 2012 | Temas que Romney y Obama evitan Noam Chomsky La Jornada , 10 de octubre de 2012 Ahora que el espectáculo cuatrienal de la elección presidencial está alcanzando la cúspide, es útil preguntar cómo las campañas políticas están abordando los temas más cruciales que enfrentamos. La respuesta es sencilla: mal, o para nada. E... | 8,251 | 5f07339f74ffb5bda5ed11b4811dae7d67a53d60f92bb64774438ae048b26e43 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
ddedd604f227abf8 | articles | War Drums Beat Ever More Loudly Over Iran. | 2012-09-04 | War Drums Beat Ever More Loudly Over Iran By Noam Chomsky Truthout , September 4, 2012 It is not easy to escape from one’s skin, to see the world differently from the way it is presented to us day after day. But it is useful to try. Let’s take a few examples. The war drums are beating ever more loudly over Iran. Imagin... | 7,243 | 78ec7424c4ab61127540002b26948db5660ae542303e8fe5251f4bcc99310a51 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
cca316c55f58968e | articles | Why America and Israel Are the Greatest Threats to Peace. | 2012-09-03 | Why America and Israel Are the Greatest Threats to Peace Noam Chomsky Alternet , September 3, 2012 It is not easy to escape from one’s skin, to see the world differently from the way it is presented to us day after day. But it is useful to try. Let’s take a few examples. The war drums are beating ever more loudly over ... | 7,254 | d0464e30386f0fbea87a56d88a971e2eadfb0c7de7cdc24f2cf128c567b86627 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
5141f55ed31d74df | articles | In Hiroshima’s Shadow. | 2012-08-02 | In Hiroshima’s Shadow Noam Chomsky Truthout , August 2, 2012 August 6, the anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally fo... | 6,414 | dd9142d88cdbdc2d3d52242fee9ed2f26775df043cab139ea0ded5d3a8819d26 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
41998b9dc0f19c1d | articles | Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta. | 2012-07-22 | Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta Noam Chomsky Tomdispatch.com , July 22, 2012 Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights, will arrive. Whether it will be celebrated, mourned, or ignored is no... | 34,391 | 20e554d5ab7c1e41fac1c9befd0bb73304ecd78647c477dfb551ca463dbd5420 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
7e25c3bc02bc692d | articles | Somebody Else’s Atrocities. | 2012-06-06 | Somebody Else’s Atrocities Noam Chomsky In These Times , June 6, 2012 In his penetrating study “Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-Opted Human Rights,” international affairs scholar James Peck observes, “In the history of human rights, the worst atrocities are always committed by somebody else, never us” — who... | 7,545 | ccbf7fb301959b675ee00be4ee3b0361fcbd06e9fe7e6cdf07eb47d041a73a1f | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
de7a43555cc007a6 | articles | Plutonomy and the Precariat: On the History of the U.S. Economy in Decline. | 2012-05-08 | Plutonomy and the Precariat: On the History of the U.S. Economy in Decline Noam Chomsky The Huffington Post , May 8, 2012 The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can ... | 16,551 | 49f8558206bb3be4007db4caa1c37feeb973da98e2471fc56689b946fb170314 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
5489999bbd94554c | articles | Cartagena, Beyond The Secret Service Scandal. | 2012-05-03 | Cartagena, Beyond The Secret Service Scandal By Noam Chomsky Truthout , May 3, 2012 Though sidelined by the Secret Service scandal, last month’s Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, was an event of considerable significance. There are three major reasons: Cuba, the drug war, and the isolation of the United St... | 6,135 | 3ccbeb8af8f5fd031eed3da14356255d698f2db0e7b878c0d19fbd70d26d49bb | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
ca3344a05b79f5d4 | articles | May Day by Noam Chomsky. | 2012-04-29 | May Day Noam Chomsky Z Commentaries , April 29, 2012 People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning. For example, Ronald Reagan designated what he called, “Law Day”-a day of j... | 2,485 | 0a4bf731374c3e1d92a27349a7cfd7aebc77c5d28a8bae5e59a44186906f7069 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
c31f48b801df901e | articles | The Assault on Public Education. | 2012-04-04 | The Assault on Public Education By Noam Chomsky Truthout , April 4, 2012 Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have recently been held in Britain, Canada, Chile, Taiwan and elsewhere. California is also a battleground. The Los Angeles Times reports on another chapter in th... | 7,060 | e4444aad771ed9bc664177248a47d8115f05242e80b2db33d34ae9b09d406682 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
2c98d82e745b5eba | articles | What Are Iran's Intentions? | 2012-03-02 | What Are Iran’s Intentions? By Noam Chomsky Truthout , March 2, 2012 The January/February issue of Foreign Affairs featured the article “Time to Attack Iran: Why a Strike Is the Least Bad Option,” by Matthew Kroenig, along with commentary about other ways to contain the Iranian threat. The media resound with warnings a... | 6,894 | fa3f0da37e456a2f7358bb149a7b18ed025d3ef98d23a1ee82d759b1cd08bf2c | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
aaf5665b4e8246d9 | articles | The Imperial Way: American Decline in Perspective, Part 2. | 2012-02-15 | The Imperial Way: American Decline in Perspective, Part 2 Noam Chomsky Tomdispatch.com , February 15, 2012 ( Part I available here ) In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere. In the past decade, for the first time in 500 years, South America has taken successful s... | 17,227 | 96ef913489ad5c1fd4821bc38b2ac4ae4f97aea29344d5c4cab889043113e463 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
49ae50549874bc6c | articles | “Losing” the World: American Decline in Perspective, Part 1. | 2012-02-14 | “Losing” the World: American Decline in Perspective, Part 1 Noam Chomsky Tomdispatch.com , February 14, 2012 ( Part II available here ) Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated — Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. Others are ignored, and we can often learn valuable lessons fr... | 20,646 | ee834c22095a3a190cc43918eed98cb20d1447d024d1a49a1ed6e96195b1bc40 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
d937777576652c87 | articles | Anniversaries From "Unhistory". | 2012-02-06 | Anniversaries From “Unhistory” By Noam Chomsky Truthout , February 6, 2012 George Orwell coined the useful term “unperson” for creatures denied personhood because they don’t abide by state doctrine. We may add the term “unhistory” to refer to the fate of unpersons, expunged from history on similar grounds. The unhistor... | 7,188 | e43f23c32e6a101cb10a55e1145f4484acf59a161b38fc6b6988e314c2716c37 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
bf4f813ab85dde79 | articles | Recognizing the "Unpeople". | 2012-01-07 | Recognizing the “Unpeople” By Noam Chomsky Truthout , January 7, 2012 On June 15, three months after the NATO bombing of Libya began, the African Union presented to the U.N. Security Council the African position on the attack – in reality, bombing by their traditional imperial aggressors: France and Britain, joined by ... | 6,164 | 135050e23e1f278ba60368c8d9cf60bbb64a77207e648b65263155b5c3703685 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
442a2e1b7de5e074 | articles | Marching Off the Cliff. | 2011-12-06 | Marching Off the Cliff By Noam Chomsky Truthout , December 6, 2011 A task of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, now under way in Durban, South Africa, is to extend earlier policy decisions that were limited in scope and only partially implemented. These decisions trace back to the U.N. Conventio... | 6,335 | e84cfc13a8a1c1ffe5496017f208fad86e472e45b66d2fd583278a19d29147e0 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
d616a9845172e778 | articles | Occupy The Future. | 2011-11-01 | Occupy The Future Noam Chomsky In These Times , November 1, 2011 (This article is adapted from Noam Chomsky’s talk at the Occupy Boston encampment on Dewey Square on Oct. 22. He spoke as part of the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series held by Occupy Boston’s on-site Free University. Zinn was a historian, activist and a... | 7,034 | 84c6676907864d8c92e137b358092f7c1f6b89bd4391c65d5d19bf6b98f201c3 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
e3f22d06c4362257 | articles | Was There an Alternative? Looking Back on 9/11 a Decade Later. | 2011-09-06 | Was There an Alternative? Looking Back on 9/11 a Decade Later Noam Chomsky TomDispatch.com , September 6, 2011 (adapted from 9-11: Was There an Alternative? , Seven Stories Press, September 2011) We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of September 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, chan... | 22,402 | 73a5694317153d3de541093f57cc0f57d005f3a4874efec013ed12fca02d9fb9 | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
6be1d50ac813f8c6 | articles | After 9/11, Was War the Only Option? | 2011-09-05 | After 9/11, Was War the Only Option? Noam Chomsky In These Times , September 5, 2011 This month marks the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world. The impact of the attacks is not in doubt. Just keeping to western and central Asia: Afghanistan is ba... | 6,946 | d80c66e02c26c4df52db130308ea2ab9b34738ce1c3b2a165cc486d123eda60b | https://chomsky.info/articles/ |
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