Above Photo: Tom Dispatch Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. This interview has been excerpted from Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy, the new book by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian to be published […]
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Chomsky on what ‘everyone knows’
A couple of weeks ago, this site reported on an interview that professor Noam Chomsky did with Douglas Richardson in April, where he said that: “If there ever were serious support [for the right of return], Israel would go all out– using nuclear weapons, anything else– to prevent it. So it’s not going to happen.” I […]
Chomsky’s ‘nostalgia’ and our own
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. Charlottesville and white nationalism. Are the KKK and its neo-Nazi affiliates nostalgic for a world that may or may not have existed? Thinking of the past as better and to be brought […]
Chomsky still believes in the old Israel. I did too, once upon a time
On Aug. 8, we published a piece about Noam Chomsky’s objections to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting Israel. The writer, a frequent contributor, posted this as a comment on the piece but agree to expand it for a post. –Ed. My issue with Chomsky’s position is what it always was: he operates […]
Israel would use nuclear weapons to keep refugees from returning — Noam Chomsky
In mentioning boycotts, we shouldn’t overlook the fact that, again, as you all know, there is a boycott movement right here of distinguished geographers who have called for a boycott of the American Geographical Association in protest against the kind of regulations and procedures that the Trump administration is instituting. The case of the Syrian, […]
Dershowitz and Chomsky agree on one thing
Alan Dershowitz and Noam Chomsky agree on almost nothing politically but both say that anti-Semitism was deeply rooted at Harvard in the 30’s through the 60’s. They made this point in very different settings this spring. Chomsky reflected on anti-Semitism when he received an award from the Association of American Geographers in Boston in April: Let’s […]
Chomsky: Trump is a Distraction, Used by the Deep State to ‘Systematically Destroy’ America
“It’s a pretty remarkable fact that — first of all, it is a joke. Half the world is cracking up in laughter. The United States doesn’t just interfere in elections. It overthrows governments it doesn’t like, institutes military dictatorships.” “Simply in the case of Russia alone—it’s the least of it—the U.S. government, under […]
Noam Chomsky’s 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine Summarized In An Incredible Animation
Corporations are more than willing to pay a lot of money to control the voice of the media, and news stations happily oblige because their pockets are being filled. It’s not just corporations that take advantage of mass media, whether that be through ads or literally manipulating and fabricating “news,” but the government does it […]
Chomsky Says Republicans Most Dangerous Group In History – Assange Points To CIA
Julian Assange (left) with American linguist, philosopher Noam Chomsky on the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. (Photo: Yui Mok/PA) CHILE (Analysis) — On Monday, Noam Chomsky – renowned linguist, academic and activist – repeated his assertion in an interview with the BBC that the modern U.S. Republican Party is the most dangerous organization in […]
500,000 Petitions To Congress Demand Rejection Of TPP
Print Friendly Above Photo: From foe.org Today, June 29, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, Food and Water Watch and other environmental advocates delivered more than 500,000 petitions to Congress demanding the rejection of a Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal that promises to ramp up fossil fuel exports, accelerate climate change and encourage deregulation of environmental safeguards across the […]
Another Europe-wide anti-Muslim body , funded by israel and the USA
Another Europe-wide anti-Muslim body SEE ALSO Protocols of Zion, there’s one protocol which explains exactly what is happening in Europe Israel lobby and the EU Pre-launch Press Release by EuroPal Forum May 09, 2016 The influence of the Israel lobby in the US is well known; most presidential hopefuls have competed with each other in recent […]
A House Plant That Can Charge Your Cell Phone?
Think about it: USBs have completely changed the world. File sharing is so much easier and our data storing capabilities much better; we can fit huge amounts of information on these tiny little units and we can charge almost all of our electric devices with them, too. USBs are making our lives easier everywhere we […]
K-9 Alerts on Car, Cops Search It, Find Nothing and Claim “They’re Just Doing Their Jobs”
The video above and post below were submitted to CopBlock.org via the “Submission Tab” by the “Tennessee Valley Constitutionalist Society.” They discuss a video posted to YouTube where a man was subjected to a search of his car by Wichita County Sheriff’s. Tennessee Valley Constitutionalist Society states: The video above has apparently not made the rounds, as […]
LOL: Black Lives Protester at Trump Rally Gets Straight Smashed in the Face by Old White Guy
Daily Stormer March 10, 2016 Fayetteville, North Carolina: White dude is 78. He’s getting charged with assault, because the corrupt legal system doesn’t recognize the “had it coming” fact of natural law. You’d best start believing in race war. You’re in one. Source Article from http://www.dailystormer.com/lol-black-lives-protester-at-trump-rally-gets-straight-smashed-in-the-face-by-old-white-guy/ Views: 0
Erdogan is walking straight into Washington’s ‘Saddam Hussein’ trap
Washington has set a trap for impulsive Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, US journalist Mike Whitney notes, adding that a ‘color revolution’ in Turkey may one day become a reality. On February 19 Washington dismissed a draft resolution by Russia aimed at preventing a Turkish invasion of Syria at the United Nations Security Council […]
Exclude and observe — the violence of settler sovereignty in Palestine
This essay derives in part from, though cannot be blamed on, Gershon Shafir’s Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict though it is not directly cited. Thanks to Tom Pessah for helping to make this legible. Shortly after I emailed this article to him to let him know I was citing him yet […]