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Upcoming speaking event in Boston with Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, and Jeremy Scahill

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:28:00 +0000

Please join us for a discussion Jeremy Scahill’s important new book Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (Nation Books, April 23, 2013), with Noam Chomsky and Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman

on

Saturday, April 27, 2013
2 pm – 4 pm

at

Harvard University
Science Center -- Hall B
1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138
corner of Kirkland Street and Oxford Street
http://map.harvard.edu/mapserver/campusmap.htm

This event is free. Attendance is first come, first served.

Please join investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, author Noam Chomsky, and Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman for the special discussion of Scahill's ground breaking new book Dirty Wars.

Jeremy Scahill is National Security Correspondent for the Nation magazine and author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. He is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. Scahill has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere across the globe. Scahill is a frequent guest on a wide array of programs, appearing regularly on The Rachel Maddow Show, Real Time with Bill Maher and Democracy Now! He has also appeared on Fresh Air, ABC World News, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, CNN, PBS NewsHour and Bill Moyers Journal. Scahill’s work has sparked several congressional investigations and won some of journalism’s highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for his book Blackwater. He is also the subject of the film Dirty Wars (http://dirtywars.org/), an official selection of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The film opens in theaters June 7 through Sundance Selects.

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now! (http://www.democracynow.org/), a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,100 public television and radio stations worldwide. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its “Pick of the Podcasts,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press.

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and author of numerous books, including Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, Imperial Ambitions, What We Say Goes, Interventions, and Hopes and Prospects.

In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside America’s new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies.

Drawn from the ranks of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, former Blackwater and other private security contractors, the CIA’s Special Activities Division and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), these elite soldiers operate worldwide, with thousands of secret commandos working in more than one hundred countries. Funded through “black budgets,” Special Operations Forces conduct missions in denied areas, engage in targeted killings, snatch and grab individuals and direct drone, AC-130 and cruise missile strikes. While the Bush administration deployed these ghost militias, President Barack Obama has expanded their operations and given them new scope and legitimacy. Dirty Wars follows the consequences of the declaration that “the world is a battlefield,” as Scahill uncovers the most important foreign policy story of our time. From Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond, Scahill reports from the frontlines in this high-stakes investigation and explores the depths of America’s global killing machine. He goes beneath the surface of these covert wars, conducted in the shadows, outside the range of the press, without effective congressional oversight or public debate. And, based on unprecedented access, Scahill tells the chilling story of an American citizen marked for assassination by his own government.

As US leaders draw the country deeper into conflicts across the globe, setting the world stage for enormous destabilization and blowback, Americans are not only at greater risk—we are changing as a nation. Scahill unmasks the shadow warriors who prosecute these secret wars and puts a human face on the casualties of unaccountable violence that is now official policy: victims of night raids, secret prisons, cruise missile attacks and drone strikes, and whole classes of people branded as “suspected militants.” Through his brave reporting, Scahill exposes the true nature of the dirty wars the United States government struggles to keep hidden.

Praise for Dirty Wars:

“There is no journalist in America who has exposed the truth about US government militarism more bravely, more relentlessly and more valuably than Jeremy Scahill. Dirty Wars is highly gripping and dramatic, and of unparalleled importance in understanding the destruction being sown in our name.”
—Glenn Greenwald, New York Times best-selling author and Guardian columnist

“Dirty Wars tells us, with convincing detail and much new information, what has been done in the name of America since 9/11.”
—Seymour Hersh

“Dirty Wars is the most thorough and authoritative history I’ve read yet of the causes and consequences of America’s post-9/11 conflation of war and national security. I know of no other journalist who could have written it: For over a decade, Scahill has visited the war zones, overt and covert; interviewed the soldiers, spooks, jihadists, and victims; and seen with his own eyes the fruits of America’s bipartisan war fever. He risked his life many times over to write this book, and the result is a masterpiece of insight, journalism, and true patriotism.”
—Barry Eisler, novelist and former operative in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations

Sponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, the ACLU of Massachusetts, Nation Institute, American Friends Service Committee, the Cambridge Peace Commission, and the Community Church of Boston.

For more information about the book, film, and Jeremy Scahill, visit:
http://dirtywars.org/

Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East (2013 Edward Said Lecture)

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:08:00 +0000

Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East (2013 Edward Said Lecture)

http://chomsky.info/talks/20130318.htm

How Noam Chomsky is discussed, by Glenn Greenwald

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:05:00 +0000

How Noam Chomsky is discussed, by Glenn Greenwald

http://chomsky.info/onchomsky/20130323.htm

Profile of Noam Chomsky in the Financial Times

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 02:18:00 +0000

Profile of Noam Chomsky in the Financial Times

http://chomsky.info/onchomsky/20130315-2.htm

Brief profile of Noam Chomsky in The Guardian (UK), by journalist Charles Glass

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:59:00 +0000

Brief profile of Noam Chomsky in The Guardian (UK), by journalist Charles Glass

http://chomsky.info/onchomsky/20130315.htm

Rare video of Noam Chomsky interviewed with Gore Vidal in 1991

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:14:00 +0000

Rare video of Noam Chomsky interviewed with Gore Vidal in 1991

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc91NwYvm84
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQVhGyH-gCQ
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HP-expQG7E

Complete videorecording of 1971 debate between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:40:00 +0000

Complete videorecording of 1971 debate between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault

http://aphelis.net/chomsky-foucault-debate-complete-video-recording/

Noam Chomsky profile in the Financial Times

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:28:00 +0000

Noam Chomsky profile in the Financial Times

http://chomsky.info/onchomsky/20130215.htm

Additional video excerpt of Noam Chomsky speech at East Stroudsburg University, Pennsylvania

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:42:00 +0000

Additional video excerpt of Noam Chomsky speech at East Stroudsburg University, Pennsylvania

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgHqwqoQvVg

Michel Gondry (director of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") produces an "animated documentary" with Noam Chomsky titled "Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?" (trailer now available)

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:17:00 +0000

Michel Gondry (director of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") produces an "animated documentary" with Noam Chomsky titled "Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?" (trailer now available)

http://www.firstshowing.net/2013/watch-first-trailer-for-michel-gondrys-noam-chomsky-documentary/

Edited excerpt from Power Systems, Noam Chomsky’s new book of interviews with David Barsamian

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:33:00 +0000

Edited excerpt from Power Systems, Noam Chomsky’s new book of interviews with David Barsamian

The Paranoia of the Superrich and Superpowerful: Washington's Dilemma on a "Lost" Planet
http://chomsky.info/interviews/20130203.htm

Noam Chomsky interview with Cenk Uygur of "The Young Turks"

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:54:00 +0000

Noam Chomsky interview with Cenk Uygur of "The Young Turks"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwRkfddtSPs

Noam Chomsky speech at Boğaziçi University in Turkey, January 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:57:00 +0000

Noam Chomsky speech at Boğaziçi University in Turkey, January 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUjdPrX59p0

(for version with Turkish audio voiceover, visit http://youtu.be/QJVVFmyKkBQ)

"Chomsky on War Criminals," interview with PressTV (Iran)

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:44:00 +0000

"Chomsky on War Criminals," interview with PressTV (Iran)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQPOsOxdxnE

Video of linguistics lecture by Noam Chomsky at Princeton University, November 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:08:00 +0000

Video of linguistics lecture by Noam Chomsky at Princeton University, November 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgd8BnZ2-iw

Video of 1992 Noam Chomsky interview on linguistics, in Barcelona

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:21:00 +0000

Video of 1992 Noam Chomsky interview on linguistics, in Barcelona

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV62ZYQo4qs

Noam Chomsky interview with SBS News (Australia), November 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:52:00 +0000

Noam Chomsky interview with SBS News (Australia), November 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr4g4rQGbWg

Noam Chomsky interview on Al Jazeera

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:26:00 +0000

Noam Chomsky interview on Al Jazeera

Noam Chomsky: The responsibility of privilege
The famed linguist and political activist says intellectuals have a moral duty to hold centres of power to account.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2013/01/201311294541129427.html

Video of Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn speaking together, on September 27, 2004

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 05:36:00 +0000

Video of Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn speaking together, on September 27, 2004

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7-G9VrJr_k

BBC Persian Interview with Noam Chomsky

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 05:33:00 +0000

BBC Persian Interview with Noam Chomsky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yVQOCzw34U

Personal interview with Noam Chomsky on "Work, Learning and Freedom"

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:06:00 +0000

Personal interview with Noam Chomsky on "Work, Learning and Freedom"

http://chomsky.info/interviews/20121224.htm

Entrevista en castellano a Noam Chomsky / Spanish-language televion program and interview with Noam Chomsky

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:03:00 +0000

Entrevista en castellano a Noam Chomsky / Spanish-language televion program and interview with Noam Chomsky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxJdBdMHndY

Recent Noam Chomsky interview

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:28:00 +0000

Recent Noam Chomsky interview

"Noam Chomsky Post-Election: We Need More Organization, Education, Activism"
http://chomsky.info/interviews/20121213.htm

Text of recent interview with Noam Chomsky

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:04:00 +0000

Text of recent interview with Noam Chomsky

"Nothing Can Justify Torture": An Interview With Noam Chomsky on Obama's Human Rights Record
http://chomsky.info/interviews/20121212.htm

Article from The New Yorker magazine

noreply@blogger.com (Administrator) — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:55:00 +0000

Article from The New Yorker magazine

Happy Birthday Noam Chomsky: Noam Chomsky’s Legacy
http://chomsky.info/onchomsky/20121207.htm