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Chomsky: The Decline of American Empire (Part 2) The principles of imperial domination have undergone little change, but the capacity to implement them has markedly declined. Read more By Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch.com State Rape in Virginia: New Law...
A nuanced interpretation – accurate to my knowledge, and ignored by Gray – is given in the book. Of particular interest is Gray's outrage over my critique of mainstream debate over the Iraq war, which, as I pointed out, is similar to Soviet commentary...
MIT linguistic professor and iconoclastic intellectual and political activist Noam Chomsky, 83, delivers a Dean's lecture at the University of Maryland in College Park on January 27, 2012. The lecture which lasted two hours drew some 900 students at ... View Photo »
These things were absolutely not clear, and they weren't reported. And even afterwards when they were reported, they were not talking about the uprising. They were talking about an element within it.
The center also recommends the propaganda film Occupation 101, which features notorious defamers of Israel like Noam Chomsky and Richard Falk, whose “despicable” anti-Israel animus led Susan Rice, US ambassador to the United Nations, to call for his...
Chomsky's argument is that United States foreign policy since the Second World War has been founded on an assumption that the US has the right to global preeminence and domination, as well as free exercise of violence, and that the sovereignty of other...
By 1970, U.S. share of world wealth had dropped to about 25 percent, roughly where it remains, still colossal but far below the end of World War II. By then, the industrial world was “tripolar”: US-based North America, German-based Europe, and East...
U.S. academic Noam Chomsky, right, is presented the Sydney Peace Prize by former winner Pat Dodson in Sydney, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. The Sydney Peace Foundation awarded Chomsky for his generosity of spirit and commitment to the promotion of peace with... View Photo »
Noam Chomsky is a truly global figure who, for decades, has promoted peace and justice for all peoples of the world ... He is the intellectual of our age and the conscience of our time.
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 steps to free itself from western domination, another serious loss.
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 from them about what is likely to lie ahead. Right now, in fact. At...
Avram Noam Chomsky (pronounced /noʊm ˈtʃɑmski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor emeritus and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific... Full Article
U.S. academic Noam Chomsky, right, is presented the Sydney Peace Prize by former winner Pat Dodson in Sydney, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. The Sydney Peace Foundation awarded Chomsky for his generosity of spirit and commitment to the promotion of peace with justice.
View Photo »U.S. academic Noam Chomsky, right, smiles after he was presented the Sydney Peace Prize by former winner Pat Dodson in Sydney, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. The Sydney Peace Foundation awarded Chomsky for his generosity of spirit and commitment to the promotion of peace with justice.
View Photo »U.S. academic Noam Chomsky, right, is presented the Sydney Peace Prize by former winner Pat Dodson in Sydney, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. The Sydney Peace Foundation awarded Chomsky for his generosity of spirit and commitment to the promotion of peace with justice.
View Photo »These things were absolutely not clear, and they weren't reported. And even afterwards when they were reported, they were not talking about the uprising. They were talking about an element within it.
Noam Chomsky is a truly global figure who, for decades, has promoted peace and justice for all peoples of the world ... He is the intellectual of our age and the conscience of our time.
It wasn't clear, even for those five minutes, that the imperial powers accepted the resolution. It only became clear a couple of days later when they started bombing in support of the rebels. And it didn't have to happen. It could have been that world opinion, most of it -- the BRICS, Africa, Turkey, an...
At every stage of history our concern must be to dismantle those forms of authority and oppression that survive from an era when they might have been justified in terms of the need for security or survival or economic development, but that now contribute to--rather than alleviate--material and cultural ...
The real issue is not whether the U.S. funds the U.N., but whether the U.S. has the right to run the world
