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“Impressions of Gaza”By Noam Chomsky, written following his trip to the Gaza Strip on October 25-30, 2012.
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The Kind of Anarchism I Believe in, and What's Wrong with LibertariansPosted Sunday, June 09, 2013The 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 ScahillPosted Friday, April 19, 2013Please 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/ 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, 2013Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East (2013 Edward Said Lecture) http://chomsky.info/talks/20130318.htm How Noam Chomsky is discussed, by Glenn GreenwaldPosted Tuesday, March 26, 2013Profile of Noam Chomsky in the Financial TimesPosted Tuesday, March 19, 2013Profile 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 GlassPosted Saturday, March 16, 2013Brief 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 1991Posted Wednesday, March 06, 2013Rare 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 FoucaultPosted Saturday, March 02, 2013Complete 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 TimesPosted Monday, February 18, 2013Additional video excerpt of Noam Chomsky speech at East Stroudsburg University, PennsylvaniaPosted Wednesday, February 13, 2013Additional 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, 2013Michel 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 BarsamianPosted Monday, February 04, 2013Edited 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, 2013Noam 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 2013Posted Friday, February 01, 2013Noam 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 2012Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2013Video 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 BarcelonaPosted Monday, January 21, 2013Video of 1992 Noam Chomsky interview on linguistics, in Barcelona http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV62ZYQo4qs Noam Chomsky interview with SBS News (Australia), November 2011Posted Sunday, January 20, 2013Noam Chomsky interview with SBS News (Australia), November 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr4g4rQGbWg Noam Chomsky interview on Al JazeeraPosted Sunday, January 13, 2013Noam 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, 2004Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2013Video 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 ChomskyPosted Wednesday, January 02, 2013Personal interview with Noam Chomsky on "Work, Learning and Freedom"Posted Saturday, December 29, 2012Personal 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 ChomskyPosted Friday, December 28, 2012Entrevista en castellano a Noam Chomsky / Spanish-language televion program and interview with Noam Chomsky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxJdBdMHndY Recent Noam Chomsky interviewPosted Thursday, December 27, 2012Recent 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 ChomskyPosted Thursday, December 13, 2012Text 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 magazinePosted Saturday, December 08, 2012Article 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 GazaPosted Sunday, December 02, 2012New 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, 2012Video 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 interviewPosted Wednesday, November 28, 2012Video 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, 2012New 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 ChomskyPosted Wednesday, November 07, 2012"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 researchPosted Tuesday, November 06, 2012Recent 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/ New article by Noam Chomsky, "Impressions of Gaza," written following his trip to the Gaza Strip on October 25-30, 2012Posted Sunday, November 04, 2012New 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, 2012New 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, 2012Video 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 AmherstPosted Sunday, October 28, 2012Transcript 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 AmherstPosted Friday, October 26, 2012Video of recent talk by Noam Chomsky at UMass Amherst http://www.democracynow.org/ Noam Chomsky interviewed in Gaza by ElectronicIntifada.netPosted Sunday, October 21, 2012Noam 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 CrisisPosted Tuesday, October 16, 2012Article 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, 2012Audio 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 interviewPosted Wednesday, October 10, 2012Audio 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 CockburnPosted Monday, October 08, 2012Video 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, 2012New 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, ItalyPosted Tuesday, September 25, 2012Video 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, ItalyPosted Monday, September 24, 2012Video 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, 2012Interview 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, 2012Video 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 2012Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2012Text 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 LawsuitPosted Tuesday, September 18, 2012Update 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/ |