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 Noam Chomsky April 10, 2006 11:32 PM

http://web.media.mit.edu/~nitin/mideast/chomsky.html

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: ) April 11, 2006 8:57 AM

Good on you for this, Che I heartily recommend Chomsky too! And this particular website and speech looks very relevant, informative, and easy to learn from, since it has the video of the speech

Che recommends Chomsky!

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 April 11, 2006 11:11 AM

Me too!! he has great articles!  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 
Chomsky is brilliant! April 11, 2006 11:29 AM

http://www.chomsky.info/

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 April 11, 2006 9:18 PM

I think he's the biggest intellectual of our generation.

I also know you 3 like him very much, so feel free to put relevant theories of his in this group whenever you want. 

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 April 25, 2006 7:06 AM

http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/index.cfm  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 
Here´s Another- Inside the Escalation July 17, 2006 1:33 AM

INSIDE THE ESCALATION
 
Here is an interview by Amy Goodman of Noam Chomsky about what is happening in the Middle East.  Chomsky speaks fluent Hebrew and is one of the leading experts on what is happening in Israel
and explains facts you will not get from corporate media, who have distorted events so much that the average American has no idea what's happening
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a must hear form YOU TUBE on current 'conflict' July 23, 2006 6:18 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKq38COoTG8&eurl=  I also have it linked on my blog  http://jarnocan.blogspot.com/   and so does this wonderful fellow's blog  http://sabbah.biz/mt/   

I also have petotions on my blog.

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 July 24, 2006 8:05 AM

brilliant post...  [ send green star]
 
Israeli Distortion August 07, 2006 8:10 AM

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
How Israel manipulates and distorts American public perceptions
 
Through the voices of scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious figures, and Middle East experts, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land carefully analyzes and explains how--through the use of language, framing and context--the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied terrorities appears to be a defensive move rather than an offensive one.
 
 
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Bazen Imperialism in the Middle East June 17, 2008 4:58 PM

Brazen imperialism in the Middle East
Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:05:51
The following is Press TV's exclusive full-length interview with American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author and MIT professor Avram Noam Chomsky:

Press TV: How do you characterize this so-called security treaty between Washington and Baghdad?

Chomsky: The security arrangement was in fact declared last November. There was a declaration from the White House, presumably a Bush-Maliki declaration, but had nothing to do with the Congress or Parliament or any other official institution. It called for an indefinite long-term US military presence in Iraq and that could include the huge air bases that are now being built around Iraq. The US is building what's called an embassy but it's unlike any embassy in the world. Its essentially a city inside a city. These are all declared intentions to retain a permanent dominant presence in Iraq.

The declaration also, a little to my surprise, had a rather brazen statement about exploiting the resources of Iraq. It said that the economy of Iraq, which means its oil resources, must be open to foreign investment, privileging American investors. That's pretty brazen. Now that's brazen imperialism saying we invaded you so that we can control your country; and so that our corporations can have privileged access to your resources.

It was not at all clear that any Iraqi was ever going to accept this and in the steps that had followed as there was an attempt to sort of formulate it, more precisely, there have been predictably increasing objections.

Different formulations and so on but without going through the details leading to prime minister al-Maliki's recent comment that you quoted.

Press TV: Do you think Nouri al-Maliki will eventually succumb? I mean previous occupants of that position, well, they have come and gone. Haven't they?

Chomsky: I mean look the country is under military occupation. It is not a free country, so there is a limit on how much any individual can do when your country is under military occupation.

The Wall Street Journal, which is not exactly a radical newspaper, states that the Maliki government survives only on the basis of US arms. That's an exaggeration but not an inconceivable perception, so he might not survive if he doesn't accept it.

Press TV: Professor Chomsky, of course, one country that is being blamed by Washington is Iran and what's on a lot of minds in the Middle East is this drumbeat of war as it were. Do you think the United States wants military action and will there be military action against Iran? And how do you characterize the IAEA's nuclear negotiation process?

Chomsky: It is interesting, the way everything is blamed on Iran. And that's a rather striking reflection of how deep-seated the imperial mentality is in the West, so for example when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is asked by the press: is there a solution to the problem in Iraq, and she says yes a simple solution - foreign forces should be withdrawn and foreign arms should be withdrawn, referring of course to Iran -, people don't laugh and collapse in ridicule.

I mean, of course, there are foreign forces and foreign arms in Iraq, but not Iranian. They are American, but those are not considered foreign forces.

In the Western conception, US and, indeed, much of the West, if our forces are anywhere, they are indigenous. They are not foreign because fundamentally there is a tacit assumption that we own the world, so our forces are not foreign - they are indigenous.

We talk about Iranian interference: it's like talking about Allied interference in Nazi occupied Vichy France; it doesn't make any sense, but the mentality accepts it.

Now as far as the IAEA is concerned, the United States handed over to the international agency a collection of documents recently and the agency says they have not received adequate explanation about them from Iran. OK that's where things now stand.

I have my own opinion about what ought to be done and, in fact, it happens to be the same as the opinion of the overwhelming majority of Americans and also the overwhelming majority of Iranians, according to the polls in the two countries, namely that the right solution to this problem is to declare a nuclear weapons free zone in the entire region which would include Iran, Israel and American forces deployed there and so on. About three quarter of Americans are in favor of that, and I think that's the right idea!

Press TV: Professor Chomsky, that's obviously not going to happen...

Chomsky: Who says? It won't happen on the assumption that the United States is a completely undemocratic country in which public opinion can't influence policy. I don't think that's a necessary assumption.

Press TV: We're hearing things from Israel. There were remarks about some 'Iran Command' being set up. Of course, we had Seymour Hersh in the United States saying that there was going  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 
 January 21, 2009 8:02 AM

Noam Chomsky On Gaza
http://www.informat ionclearinghouse .info/article217 88.htm

Chomsky: "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza Jan 19,2009
http://www.chomsky. info/articles

Chomsky: Undermining Gaza. With Sameer Dossani. Jan 16, 2009
http://www.chomsky. info/interviews/ 20090116. htm

Noam Chomsky Public Forum on Gaza. Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. January 13, 2008
http://www.soundlan tern.com/ UpdatedSoundPage .do?ToId= 28315

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anonymous  May 01, 2009 10:41 AM

Here's Noam Chomsky defending Norman Finkelstein, author of Beyond Chutzpah.  Chomsky explains how the apologists ~in this case, Alan Dershowitz ~ operate to obfuscate their inaccuracies and lies.

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anonymous  May 05, 2009 11:07 AM

Here's Chomsky's author page from a site called Library Thing.

http://www.librarything.com/author/chomskynoam

There you will find ALL of his books listed. Better still, each title is a hyperlink; just click on a title to go to the page for that book, to see a full-color cover photo, reviews, recommendations for further reading, and more.  A very useful resource for Chomsky fans, indeed!

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