Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky Embarrassed by George Monbiot

Ben Cohen | Posted 05.31.2012

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I was extremely saddened to see a bad tempered back and forth between two important intellectual figures, Noam Chomsky and George Monbiot, over an article written by Monbiot on the definition of genocide.

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Pulling Punches? Inside Job's Charles Ferguson's Latest: Predator Nation

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.29.2012

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We need to ask ourselves why this liberal critique will be widely ignored and what we can do to insure it won't be. It is deserving of attention. I respect the prodigious effort, but what is also true is that the elite with whom he eats, or does business, is unlikely to be the agency for change.

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Occupying With Noam Chomsky

Greg Ruggiero | Posted 04.30.2012

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"Occupy," says Noam Chomsky in his new book, "is the first major public response to thirty years of class war." One of the movement's greatest successes has been simply to put the inequalities of everyday life on the national agenda, influencing reporting, public perception and language itself.

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May Day

Noam Chomsky | Posted 04.28.2012

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May Day started here, but then became an international day in support of American workers who were being subjected to brutal violence and judicial punishment. If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

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What Is Solidarity? A Pamphleteer's Occupation

Greg Ruggiero | Posted 04.12.2012

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Who in their right mind would start a new small press at a time when the economy is so bad, e-books are rising, and book stores, libraries and perhaps the printed word itself are getting shoved down the same path as vinyl records and record stores?

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The Imperial Way

Noam Chomsky | Posted 04.16.2012

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Why exactly is Iran regarded as such a colossal threat? The question is rarely discussed, but it is not hard to find a serious answer -- though not, as usual, in the fevered pronouncements.

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"Losing" the World

Noam Chomsky | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: America Decline, American Decline, Noam Chomsky, Wealth Disparity, Income Gap, U.S. Manufacturing, Wealth Gap, China America Relations, U.S. China Economy, Politics News

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

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How Two South Asian Literary Festivals Are Defining the Role of the Writer

Deji Olukotun | Posted 04.02.2012

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Most literary festivals are placid affairs in which writers exchange ideas and autographs and occasionally get tanked. But these two festivals were overshadowed by the political contexts in which they occurred.

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I'm an A-oholic

Matt Linn | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Noam Chomsky, College, College Acceptance, School Grades, Grades, High School News

It's time we stop this out-of-control obsession with all grades 90 through 100. I'll take the first step. Hi, my name is Matt, and I'm an A-oholic.

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The Hidden Power of Occupy Wall Street

Edward Murray | Posted 12.03.2011

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Some people say Occupy Wall Street is a bunch of unemployed kids shouting, "Grr, money bad!" Young New Yorkers don't need to sleep in a park to complain about being broke; they have bars in Astoria for that.

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Five Books That Blew Our Minds, 1955-1975

Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Noam Chomsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo?S Nest, Lolita, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Books, Fifty News

At first glance, these books have very little in common -- a racially-charged tome and one of the most praised linguistic publications in history, a "...

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Occupy Wall Street, Day 12: More Bold-Faced Support, Dramatic Arrests (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 11.28.2011

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Celebrities, public intellectuals and political figures are coming out of the woodworks to show support of the #OccupyWallStreet protesters, entering ...

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Noam Chomsky on Ron Paul's 9/11 Theories: "What He Said Is Completely Uncontroversial" (VIDEO)

Democracy Now! | Posted 11.14.2011

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During the most recent Republican presidential debate on Monday, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas drew boos and jeers from the crowd and his fellow debaters for...

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Ten Years After: Commemoration Without Agenda

Michael Roth | Posted 11.09.2011

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On this 10th anniversary of 9/11 let us simply acknowledge the claim that our painful memories still have on us. Let us recognize with piety that we still carry the traces of those traumatic events with us, and that we acknowledge their importance to us without trying to use them.

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Murder of Catholic Priest in Colombia Greeted With Collective Silence

Dan Kovalik | Posted 11.07.2011

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Last night, I received an email from the Colombia Support Network about a Catholic priest who was assassinated in Colombia. His name was Father Jos...

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Chomsky: Moral Justice Trumps "Legal" Justice and America's Narrow Political Spectrum

Naima Ramos-Chapman | Posted 11.06.2011

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Here's my half-baked attempt at giving you some sweet takeaways from The Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Human Nature.

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What Happened to America?

Marty Kaplan | Posted 11.06.2011

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After decades of corporate triumphalism, which concentrated wealth and power in fewer hands, and after generations of government being so compromised it is no longer capable of checking that power, the better question may be: How could it not have happened?

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Lingering Questions for Chomsky on Venezuela (Part 3)

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 10.24.2011

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Apparently, there is something in Chomsky's DNA that prevents him from discussing Latin America outside the context of U.S. imperialism. Thus, everything that transpires politically in the region must be compared with Washington's actions.

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Lingering Questions For Chomsky On Venezuela (Part 2)

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 10.17.2011

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At long last, the meeting between Chomsky and Chávez took place in 2009 when Chomsky traveled to Caracas. In a video posted to YouTube, Chomsky looks a little awkward and uncomfortable as he stands next to Chávez.

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Noam Chomsky Says "Everyone Is An Illegal Immigrant" Aside From Native Americans

Guernica Magazine | Posted 10.16.2011

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In an interview with Luis Cárdenas of Guernica Magazine, Noam Chomsky hints that Mexican journalists are too scared to report on the U.S. government...

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Lingering Questions for Chomsky on Venezuela (Part 1)

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 10.09.2011

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Noam Chomsky has provided sympathetic commentary on Venezuela, and in 2009 Chomsky even met personally with Chávez in Caracas. It came as a slight surprise, therefore, when the professor of linguistics recently criticized Chávez.

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Movie Review: Project Nim - Inhuman

Marshall Fine | Posted 09.06.2011

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"It was the '70s," one of the participants says at one point in the documentary Project Nim, about an experiment involving a chimpanzee and human lang...

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Osama Bin Laden: The Aftermath

Hisham Wyne | Posted 07.18.2011

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Over a couple of weeks have transpired since the assassination of the purported rock star of the Al Qaeda world. The champagne has been guzzled, and t...

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Buddhism And The Fate Of The Species

John Stanley | Posted 07.12.2011

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As weather-related disasters increase every year and the world begins to burn, the very fate of our species is being treated as a mere "externality" by free market ideology.

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I Am Review: Hollywood Director Exlores What's Right with the World

Dan Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

As the world is transfixed by remarkable change in the Middle East, America's popcorn culture distracts us with another Nicholas Cage road rage movie ...

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