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“Impressions of Gaza”

By Noam Chomsky, written following his trip to the Gaza Strip on October 25-30, 2012.

http://chomsky.info/articles/20121104.htm

(Ashraf Amra / APA Images)




 

The Kind of Anarchism I Believe in, and What's Wrong with Libertarians

Posted Sunday, June 09, 2013

The Kind of Anarchism I Believe in, and What's Wrong with Libertarians

Text of recent Noam Chomsky interview:

http://chomsky.info/interviews/20130528.htm


 

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

Posted Friday, April 19, 2013

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)

Posted Friday, March 29, 2013

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

Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2013


How Noam Chomsky is discussed, by Glenn Greenwald

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


 

Profile of Noam Chomsky in the Financial Times

Posted Tuesday, March 19, 2013

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

Posted Saturday, March 16, 2013

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

Posted Wednesday, March 06, 2013

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

Posted Saturday, March 02, 2013

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

Posted Monday, February 18, 2013

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

Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2013

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)

Posted Sunday, February 10, 2013

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

Posted Monday, February 04, 2013

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"

Posted Saturday, February 02, 2013

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

Posted Friday, February 01, 2013

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)

Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2013

"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

Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2013

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

Posted Monday, January 21, 2013

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

Posted Sunday, January 20, 2013

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

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


 

Noam Chomsky interview on Al Jazeera

Posted Sunday, January 13, 2013

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

Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2013

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

Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2013

BBC Persian Interview with Noam Chomsky

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


 

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

Posted Saturday, December 29, 2012

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

Posted Friday, December 28, 2012

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

Posted Thursday, December 27, 2012

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

Posted Thursday, December 13, 2012

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

Posted Saturday, December 08, 2012

Article from The New Yorker magazine

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


 

New Noam Chomsky article on recent events in Gaza

Posted Sunday, December 02, 2012

New Noam Chomsky article on recent events in Gaza

“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 to blame: I shot a rocket back.’ The old man’s message provides the proper context for the timelines on the latest episode in the savage punishment of Gaza.”

“Palestine 2012 — Gaza and the UN resolution”
http://chomsky.info/articles/20121201.htm


 

Video of Noam Chomsky speech at the American University in Cairo (October 23)

Posted Saturday, December 01, 2012

Video of Noam Chomsky speech at the American University in Cairo (October 23)

"Emerging World Order and the Arab Spring"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2P6HSRLZgQ


 

Video of recent Noam Chomsky interview

Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Video of recent Noam Chomsky interview

Democracy, Plutocracy, Palestinians, Kurds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXO8kHqmyzs


 

New book includes interview with Noam Chomsky on "The Definition of Terrorism"

Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2012

New book includes interview with Noam Chomsky on "The Definition of Terrorism"

Weapon of the Strong: Conversations on US State Terrorism
http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745332413&


 

New short film, "99%," with appearance by Noam Chomsky

Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2012

New short film, "99%," with appearance by Noam Chomsky

http://www.the99percentmovie.com/


 

"The Noam Chomsky Reading List" -- ongoing project to catalog the bibliographical references in Noam Chomsky's political works



"The Noam Chomsky Reading List" -- ongoing project to catalog the bibliographical references in Noam Chomsky's political works

http://www.chomskylist.com/


 

Recent Noam Chomsky interview on artificial intelligence and statistical research

Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Recent Noam Chomsky interview on artificial intelligence and statistical research

"Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong," interview by Yarden Katz
http://chomsky.info/interviews/20121101.htm


(for further background, see also http://www.chomsky.info/debates.htm#norvig)



 

New article by Noam Chomsky, "Impressions of Gaza," written following his trip to the Gaza Strip on October 25-30, 2012

Posted Sunday, November 04, 2012

New article by Noam Chomsky, "Impressions of Gaza," written following his trip to the Gaza Strip on October 25-30, 2012

http://chomsky.info/articles/20121104.htm


 

New middle-school textbook features Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and other "changemakers"

Posted Friday, November 02, 2012

New middle-school textbook features Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and other "changemakers"


101 Changemakers
Rebels and Radicals Who Changed US History

http://www.haymarketbooks.org/hc/101-Changemakers


 

Video of Noam Chomsky speech at the People Before Profits Award ceremony, presented by the Center for Popular Economics (September 27, 2012)

Posted Monday, October 29, 2012


Video of Noam Chomsky speech at the  People Before Profits Award ceremony, presented by the Center for Popular Economics (September 27, 2012)


http://www.exploded-view.org/noam-chomsky-people-before-profits/


 

Transcript of recent talk given by Noam Chomsky at UMass Amherst

Posted Sunday, October 28, 2012

Transcript of recent talk given by Noam Chomsky at UMass Amherst

Who Owns the World?
http://chomsky.info/talks/20121026.htm


 

Video of recent talk by Noam Chomsky at UMass Amherst

Posted Friday, October 26, 2012

Video of recent talk by Noam Chomsky at UMass Amherst

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/26/who_owns_the_world_noam_chomsky


 

Noam Chomsky interviewed in Gaza by ElectronicIntifada.net

Posted Sunday, October 21, 2012

Noam Chomsky interviewed in Gaza by ElectronicIntifada.net


Chomsky in Gaza: academic boycott "will strengthen support for Israel"
Noam Chomsky interviewed by Rami Almeghari

http://chomsky.info/interviews/20121020.htm


 

Article for 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Article for 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis

"The Week the World Stood Still: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Ownership of the World"
http://chomsky.info/articles/20121015.htm


 

Audio of Noam Chomsky interview on the crisis in Greece and other topics, on radio station KVRX (Austin, TX)

Posted Monday, October 15, 2012

Audio of Noam Chomsky interview on the crisis in Greece and other topics, on radio station KVRX (Austin, TX)

http://www.media.net.gr/austinhellenicradio/podcastgen/podcastgen/?p=episode&name=2012-10-13_noam_chomsky_interview.mp3


 

Audio of recent Noam Chomsky interview

Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Audio of recent Noam Chomsky interview

"Noam Chomsky Discusses Activism, Occupy, The 2012 Election On The Matthew Filipowicz Show"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OL8_8NWeM0


 

Video of comments by Noam Chomsky at the memorial service for Alexander Cockburn

Posted Monday, October 08, 2012

Video of comments by Noam Chomsky at the memorial service for Alexander Cockburn

http://blip.tv/grittv/noam-chomsky-at-alexander-cockburn-memorial-6389335


 

New Noam Chomsky article: "Issues that Obama and Romney Avoid"

Posted Saturday, October 06, 2012

New Noam Chomsky article: "Issues that Obama and Romney Avoid"

"So there are differences between the parties: about how enthusiastically the lemmings should march toward the cliff."

http://chomsky.info/articles/20121005.htm


 

Video of recent Noam Chomsky lecture (on linguistics) in Trieste, Italy

Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Video of recent Noam Chomsky lecture (on linguistics) in Trieste, Italy

http://videolectures.net/single_chomsky_language_acquisition/


 

Video of September 17, 2012 lecture by Noam Chomsky in Trieste, Italy

Posted Monday, September 24, 2012

Video of September 17, 2012 lecture by Noam Chomsky in Trieste, Italy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BK0XIm0DXE


 

Interview with Noam Chomsky on May 22, 2012, at M.I.T. conducted by Chris Steele (7 videos)

Posted Saturday, September 22, 2012

Interview with Noam Chomsky on May 22, 2012, at M.I.T. conducted by Chris Steele (7 videos)

http://rudr.coalliance.org/fedora/repository/codr:2557


 

Video of February 8 Noam Chomsky lecture at the University of Arizona: "Education for Whom and for What?"

Posted Thursday, September 20, 2012

Video of February 8 Noam Chomsky lecture at the University of Arizona: "Education for Whom and for What?"

https://ondemand.azpm.org/videoshorts/watch/2012/2/10/1154-an-evening-with-noam-chomsky-education-for-whom-and-for-what/


 

Text of Noam Chomsky interview with Laura Flanders, May 2012

Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Text of Noam Chomsky interview with Laura Flanders, May 2012

"Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide"
http://chomsky.info/interviews/20120504.htm


 

Update on NDAA Lawsuit

Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Update on NDAA Lawsuit

Lawsuit by Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg and others results in a permanent judicial injunction against the National Defense Authorization Act, "which authorized the military to detain U.S. citizens indefinitely, strip them of due process and hold them in military facilities, including offshore penal colonies."


Chris Hedges: We Won—for Now
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/we_won_--_for_now_20120917/ 


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