Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On February 9, Michael Shank interviewed him on the latest developments in U.S. policy toward Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Venezuela.

They are not building a palatial embassy with the intention of going

Michael Albert interviews Noam Chomsky

Historical Perspectives on Latin American and East Asian Regional Development

There are efforts to try to extricate the US from the US power -- doesn't matter much to the people, but US power -- from the catastrophes it's created for itself.

A public event on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the bombing of Cubana airliner, flight 455, which cost the lives of 73 passengers, was held on October 6th, 2006, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Boston.

In the southern cone especially, from Venezuela to Argentina, the region is rising to overthrow the legacy of external domination of the past centuries and the cruel and destructive social forms that they have helped to establish.

Alan Dershowitz's regular little performances are eminently ignorable, including the one reproduced below. But since I've been asked several times for comments on this one, a few follow.

In Lebanon, a little-honored truce remains in effect - yet another in a decades-long series of ceasefires between Israel and its adversaries in a cycle that, as if inevitably, returns to warfare, carnage and human misery.

Though there are many interacting factors, the immediate issue that lies behind the latest US-Israeli invasion of Lebanon remains, I believe, what it was in the four preceding invasions: the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Noam Chomsky interviewed by Kaveh Afrasiabi

Noam Chomsky interviewed by Amy Goodman:

The US must take three basic steps to defuse this confrontation. The consequences of not doing so could be grim

İnsanlığın refahı ve insan hakları konusunda kaygılanmamız gereken şeyler gündeminin üst sıralarında yer alacak sorunların seçimi oldukça özneldir. Ancak kabul edilebilir bir yaşam düzeyi sağlamak ile son derece doğrudan ilintili oldukları için kaçınılması imkânsız bir kaç seçenek vardır.

An inability to protect its citizens. The belief that it is above the law. A lack of democracy. Three defining characteristics of the 'failed state'. And that, says Noam Chomsky, is exactly what the US is becoming.

Noam Chomsky interviewed by Khatchig Mouadian

We began by considering four critical issues that should rank high on the agenda of those concerned with the prospects for a decent future. Two of them are literally

India faces some important choices. It has made some steps towards closer relations with China, but is also tempted by the prospects of joining Britain in its role as a "spear-carrier for the pax Americana". By Shelley Walia

The New York Times calls him "arguably the most important intellectual alive." The Boston Globe calls him "America's most useful citizen"

Gonzales's legal advice about protecting Bush from the threat of prosecution under the War Crimes Act was proven sound not long after he gave it, in a case far more severe even than the torture scandals.

First of all, on the fact that advertising is designed to undermine free markets, that everybody knows, anyone who's ever looked at a television ad.

Noam Chomsky interviewed by The Irish Times

We have education, training, resources, opportunities and in a country like the United States, virtually no repression, it's an unusually free country by comparative standards, so we just have that much more responsibility than people who lack those opportunities, like most people in other countries

the Federal Budget came out yesterday and today. Well there hasn't been time yet for a study of public attitude towards this budget, but it's about the same as the budget that came out a year ago, February 2005.

Korea is playing a very significant role in world affairs. First of all, its economic development was remarkable, but then its political development has been equally remarkable since the overthrow of the Jun dictatorship. It is becoming a lively, exciting society. Many things are happening.

Amnesty International Annual Lecture Hosted by Trinity College

The explosions in London are a reminder of how the cycle of attack and response could escalate

The acclaimed critic of U.S. foreign policy analyzes Bush's current political troubles, the war on Iraq, and what's really behind the global 'war on terror.'

The US President Bush called last month's Iraqi elections a "major milestone in the march to democracy." They are indeed a milestone -- just not the kind that Washington would welcome.

No rational person pays the slightest attention to declarations of benign intent on the part of leaders, no matter who they are. And the reason is they're completely predictable, including the worst monsters, Stalin, Hitler the rest.