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Chomsky Still Best Seller After Speech

One week after his work was cited by Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, demand for Noam Chomsky's "Hegemony or Survival" remains strong.

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Daily Kos: Chomsky Executes a Full Godwin; Wingnuts Flip
Source: Daily Kos

A distillation of every rabid, ignorant, bull-goose crazy talking point from the right, all triggered by Noam Chomsky's comparison of the US to the Weimar Republic and the teabaggers to the then-nascent Nazi Party.

The Problem with Incorporated America:MSM media censorship just a symptom and proof of the disease

The problem is that the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , FOX NEWS,CBS,ABC ,KBR,Halliburton,BlackWater(Xe),Monsanto...etc are Corporate entities that have been infected with malfeasance and avarice through the misguided capitalism we all love...a soul manifested into an entity that has  …

Noam Chomsky's Work Banned at Guantanamo Bay
Source: MiamiHerald.com

Professor Noam Chomsky may be among America's most enduring anti-war activists. But the leftist intellectual's anthology of post 9/11 commentary is taboo at Guantánamo's prison camp library, which offers books and videos on Harry Potter, World Cup soccer and Islam.

Exceptions To The Rule
Source: Chavezian Airspace

Chomsky and Herman's Propaganda Model of US Mass Media works really well. Except when it doesn't. The exceptional left-wing coverage of some issues shows some interesting exceptions that prove the rule.

Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours
Source: Common Dreams

For the West the phrase "the crisis" has a clear enough meaning: the financial crisis that hit the rich countries with great impact, and is therefore of supreme importance. But even for the rich and privileged that is by no means the only crisis, nor even the most severe.

Noam Chomsky Meets with Chavez in Venezuela
Source: Venezualanalysis.com

Noam Chomsky meets with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Video: Noam Chomsky on "Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours"
Source: Democracy Now!

Noam Chomsky, the MIT professor, author and dissident intellectual, just turned eighty years old this past December.

Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror?, by Noam Chomsky (Talk delivered at Harvard University)
Source: chomsky.info

While we are on the subject of Bush's International Terrorism record; if you liked Michael Moore's 911, this piece, a lecture delivered at Harvard in 2002, is a must read.

Noam Chomsky on Health Care--Why has reform taken so LONG
Source: YouTube

There has been no public discussion on the single payer health plan. But enough people have found out about it, that a majority of Americans are in favor of it. If it were allowed to be discussed publicly, the support would be overwhelming.

Noam Chomsky on the Global Economic Crisis, Healthcare, US Foreign Policy and Resistance to American Empire (VIDEO)
Source: Democracy Now!

Part II of our conversation with MIT professor and author Noam Chomsky on the global economic crisis, healthcare, the media, US foreign policy, the expanding wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, resistance to American empire, and more.

Noam Chomsky: Obama's New Economic Plan is Basically Bush's Old Plan
Source: newsvideoclip.tv

Liberal activist/author/icon Noam Chomsky recently gave his opinion on the Obama - Geithner economic plan.

Latin America and Asia are Breaking Free of Washington's Grip
Source: The Asia Pacific Journal

The US-dominated world order is being challenged by a new spirit of independence in the global south. By Noam Chomsky.

A Linguistic Big Bang
Source: The New York Times

Following the 1979 Sandinista revolution, the newly installed Nicaraguan Government inaugurated the country's first large-scale effort to educate deaf children. Hundreds of students were enrolled in two Managua schools.

"Where Now For Capitalism": Balancing The Power of Capital Through Regulation & Political Change
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7621771.stm

Regulate financial markets and remove the power of capital in politics and the balance will be struck.

Chomsky: Is There Truth in Obama's Advertising?
Source: AlterNet.org

What's next will depend on whether the same thing happens. Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. And the answer to what's next depends on people like you. Nobody else can answer it. It's not predictable.

Noam Chomsky: Humanitarian Imperialism
Source: Monthly Review

Jean Bricmont's concept "humanitarian imperialism" succinctly captures a dilemma that has faced Western leaders and the Western intellectual community since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Noam Chomsky: Towards a Second Cold War?
Source: news.infoshop.org

Aghast at the atrocities committed by US forces invading the Philippines, and the rhetorical flights about liberation and noble intent that routinely accompany crimes of state, Mark Twain threw up his hands at his inability to wield his formidable weapon of satire.

Who Framed George Lakoff?
Source: chronicle.com

George P. Lakoff is falling asleep. It is a bright summer afternoon in San Francisco, and Lakoff is nursing a latte at a small table near the entrance of a bustling, sun-dappled cafe. "This is what happens when you are 67," he explains sheepishly after dozing off midsentence.

Chomsky: It's the Oil, stupid!
Source: Khaleej Times

In the US, the Democrats are silenced now because of the supposed success of the US military surge in Iraq. Their silence reflects the fact that there are no principled criticisms of the war.

Noam Chomsky on 1968, by Noam Chomsky
Source: chomsky.info

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968.

Chomsky: Poorer Countries Find a Way to Escape U.S. Dominance
Source: AlterNet.org

The famous critic lays out the emerging alternatives to the U.S.-dominated international financial institutions of the last century.

Bush Promised Israel that He Would Nuke Iran
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

Whether or not Bush manages to plunge the world into a new dark age may depend upon which version of the recent US/Iran confrontation is believed. So far, Bush's utter lack of credibility may be working to our advantage.

The Moral Instinct
Source: The New York Times

Evolution has endowed us with ethical impulses. Do we know what to do with them?

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