(RepPress) – A caller confronts Noam Chomsky about the role Neocons played in the Iraq War push. Hear James Morris question Chomsky about the Israel Lobby. Read the rest of this entry »
(SLHS) – Professor Noam Chomsky is a hugely eminent philosopher, author, activist, linguist, and public speaker whose career has spanned close to seven decades. Guy Evans of the Smells Like Human Spirit Podcast traveled to MIT in Cambridge, MA for a thirty minute interview, in which the following topics were discussed: Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – Prior to the worldwide OWS-inspired protests on October 15, a group of prominent leftists “issued a manifesto that includes a strong call for global democracy and, in particular, democratic rule over the international financial system,” reports Read the rest of this entry »
REPOST – (RussiaToday) – Pinning its hopes on the sole support of the US, Israel risks a collapse if it is ever withdrawn – much like apartheid-era South Africa, prominent scholar Professor Noam Chomsky warns. He recalls how South Africans felt safe to ignore a UN embargo and corporations pulling out of their country throughout the 1980s, as long as the Reagan administration continued to support them. As soon as the US withdrew its support, the apartheid regime collapsed. “For 35 years, the US and Israel have been rejecting a political settlement that is supported virtually by the entire world. Read the rest of this entry »
(Fair) – This week on CounterSpin: Where things stand with the Arab Spring and drive for democracy in the region. U.S. interests have always been prioritized over human rights and democratic values; the people-powered uprisings have threatened the status quo and scrambled some of the usual media narratives. But how much? We’ll hear from MIT professor about longtime activist and critic Noam Chomsky about what has changed—and what hasn’t—over the past few months. Chomsky’s speech was part of FAIR’s 25th anniversary celebration. Read the rest of this entry »
(ElectronicIntifada) – Challenging AIPAC and confronting “US interests” – Read More Here
(Truthout) – The Revenge Killing of Osama bin Laden – Noam Chomsky – Read More Here
(VenezuelaAnalysis) – Thousands March in Venezuela against U.S. Sanctions – Read More Here
(Guardian) – Libya: SAS veterans helping Nato identify Gaddafi targets in Misrata – Read More Here
(Reuters) – NATO extends Libya operations to September – Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – ‘Summer of War’ by NATO: 90 more days of Libya bombing
NATO has declared its extending its operation in Libya by another three months. The alliance chief says this decision is meant to prove to Muammar Gaddafi that the alliance is determined to fulfil the UN mandate. Let’s cross live to James Corbett an editor of an independent news website to discuss the latest developments.
(AFP) – Terrorists planned to kill Lockheed Martin CEO as response to drone bombings – Read More Here
(AFP) – Pakistan orders probe of Osama bin Laden’s hideout – Read More Here
Thus Obama was simply lying when he said, in his White House statement, that “we quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda.”
(Guernica) – It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no opposition—except, they claim, from his wife, who lunged towards them. In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress “suspects.” In April 2002, the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, informed the press that after the most intensive investigation in history, the FBI could say no more than that it “believed” that the plot was hatched in Afghanistan, though implemented in the UAE and Germany. Read the rest of this entry »
Video: Bob Chapman’s Friday Report – February 18th, 2011 – The Second Wind for Gold & Silver – Alex Jones Tv – Part 1 Here – Part 2
(MailOnline) – No need for austerity! Labour council chief’s pay soars to £168,000 as his authority faces spending cuts of 19% – Read More Here
(AP) – World Bank: Food prices at “dangerous levels” – Read More Here
(EconomicCollapseBlog) – Bancor: The Name Of The Global Currency That A Shocking IMF Report Is Proposing – Read More Here
(PressTV) – Another big corp. CEO joins White House
US President Barack Obama has tapped the chief executive officer of the world’s largest semiconductor chip maker, Intel Corp., to join his new economic advisory council. Read More Here
(DailyMail) – The great filling station rip-off: Price of petrol still rising here despite falls across Europe – Read More Here
(DailyBail) – Allstate Sues J.P. Morgan Over Sale Of Toxic RMBS – Read More Here
(Guardian) – Inside Job: how bankers caused the financial crisis – Read More Here
(DailyBail) – Largest Banks Ask Fed For Permission To Start Paying Dividends Again, Fed Tells Banks To Stress Test For New Recession With 11% Unemployment – Read More Here
(DailyBail) – FHA Commissioner Asks Congress For Wider Authority To Push Fraudulent Mortgages Back To Banks – Read More Here
REPOST – (WRH) – THE LOOTING OF SOCIAL SECURITY TO BALANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET – Read More Here
(TheLawThatNeverWas) – THE LAW THAT NEVER WAS – 16th Amendment and taxes – Read More Here
See Also: (WRH) – PDF: SULLIVAN VERSUS UNITED STATES – Read More Here
(DailyBail) – German Bank Debt Downgraded By Moody’s – Read More Here
(DailyBail) – Bernanke Defends Lehman Actions To His ‘Deathbed’ – Read More Here
(DailyBail) – “You put Lloyd Blankfein in pound me in the ass prison for one six-month term, and all this bullshit would stop, all over Wall Street,” says a former congressional aide. “That’s all it would take. Just once.” – Read More Here
(Host.Madison) – Walker is acting not as governor, but as dictator – Read More Here
See Also: (HostMadison) – Raw video: Assembly Democrats arrive en masse – Video Link Here
(DailyBail) – MERS Lacks Legal Right To Transfer Mortgages, NY Judge Rules “In Case Of Significant Impact” – Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – Video: Making Fortune on Poverty: JP Morgan’s Big Food Stamp Business – View Video Here
(CaseyResearch) – How Much More Demand Can Silver Handle? – Read More Here
(JoshHealy) – Class Warfare in Wisconsin: 10 Things You Should Know – Read More Here
(Politico) – Government shutdown is likely, Pelosi aide says – Read More Here
(EndoftheAmericanDream) – Is China Hoarding Gold In Anticipation Of A Global Financial Implosion? 10 Facts About Gold Fever In China That May Surprise You – Read More Here
(BushStole04) – Why Wall Street Is Not Being Prosecuted – Read More Here
(TheHill) – Wis. governor: GOP won’t be ‘bullied’ by union bill protesters
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) says his party has been emboldened by massive protests against his controversial budget plan. Read More Here
(CNN) – Photo shows Obama at dinner with Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg – Read More Here
(TMJ4) – Capitol Chaos: State Patrol Goes After Democratic Senators
According to the Wisconsin senate majority leader, the Governor’s office is sending out state troopers to go after Wisconsin’s Democratic Senate members to bring in a vote on Governor Walker’s budget bill which would dramatically limit government workers union’s ability to negotiate many of their benefits. Read More Here
(FinancialTimes) – Silver rises to 30-year high as mints start to ration coins – Read More Here
(GoldScents) – Dollar on the edge of the abyss – Read More Here
(BusinessInsider) – The Next 17 Big Companies That Are Heading Toward Bankruptcy – Read More Here
(GonzaloLira) – “We Owe How Much?”: Waiting for The Big Splatter – Read More Here
(BusinessInsider) – You’re Never Going To Believe This, But Silver Is Jumping Again This Morning – Read More Here
(TheProvince) – Chilliwack man shaken after home invaders take $750,000 in silver – Read More Here
(FT) – Bernanke says foreign investors fuelled crisis – Read More Here
(PressTV) – Tens of thousands protest cuts in US – Read More Here
(SHTFPlan) – Insider Report: US Government Will Confiscate Gold When It Touches $2000 – Read More Here
Climategate
(DailyMail) – Climate zealots made my life hell for being a sceptic says Johnny Ball, who was victim of porn and blog smears – Read More Here
(GlobalMontreal) – Northern New Brunswick wind turbines frozen solid
A $200-million wind farm in northern New Brunswick is frozen solid, cutting off a potential supply of renewable energy for NB Power. Read More Here
(PoorRichardsBlog) – The Great Texas Wind Hoax – Read More Here
Video: Noam Chomsky – How Climate Change Became a ‘Liberal Hoax’ – Video Link Here
(ResilientEarth) – CO2 Report Debunks Climate Change Catastrophes – Read More Here
(DailyMail) – Climate zealots made my life hell for being a sceptic says Johnny Ball, who was victim of porn and blog smears – Read More Here
(CNSNews) – White House Science Advisor: Climate Change Skeptics Are ‘Heretics’
President Obama’s top science advisor, Dr. John Holdren, told a congressman asking about climate change skeptics that climate change is accepted science and that “there are always heretics” in the scientific community.
“This is not the view of a few isolated scientists, this is the overwhelming view of scientists who study this matter around the world,” Holdren said, adding, “There are always skeptics, there are always heretics. That’s in the nature of science. Read the rest of this entry »
(ICH) – Noam Chomsky Lecture University Of Tennessee – January 25, 2011
Chomsky discussed the United States’ support of dictatorships in Egypt, Tunisia, Georgia, Jordan and Colombia.
“The guiding principle (for American government) is that as long as the public is under control, everything is fine,” he said. “(The traditional argument is) the powerful should gain ends by any possible means. As long as the public is kept under control, public will doesn’t matter.” Read the rest of this entry »
Professor Noam Chomsky explaining the 2008 bubble, democracy and neo-liberalism / corporatism i.e. the economic / monetary system, from an American perspective. Read the rest of this entry »
(AFP) – US officials back away from July 2011 Afghan withdrawal deadline
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates rejected suggestions Sunday that US forces will move out of Afghanistan in large numbers in July of next year under a deadline set by President Barack Obama.
“That absolutely has not been decided,” Gates said in an interview with Fox News Sunday. Read More Here
(June 21) – Video: The Alex Jones Show Hour 1 – Israeli Operatives
Alex in this short rant breaks down the israeli operatives that work in washington d.c. and in america spread islamic propaganda to further the need for a police state to keep us safe. Part 1 Here – Part 2
(Guardian) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange breaks cover but will avoid America
US desperate to ask hacker what he knows of classified messages about Iraq and Afghanistan wars Read More Here
(Uruknet) – Video: Obama Administration Keeping Blackwater Armed and Dangerous in Afghanistan – Video Link Here
(PressTV) – US wants Pakistan to forgo pipeline deal – Read More Here
(IrishTimes) – Scandal of vulnerable Colombian citizens killed for €1,500 bonus – Read More Here
(AlterNet) – The U.S. War Addiction: Funding Enemies to Maintain Trillion Dollar Racket
Four ways to see the true drivers of current wars around the world. Read More Here
(KurtNimmo) – Iran Executes CIA Operative Abdolmalek Rigi
Sunni militant and prized CIA asset Abdolmalek Rigi went to the gallows on Sunday. The Jundullah leader was hanged in Iran’s Evin prison after being convicted by the Islamic Revolution Court of being a mohareb, or “enemy of Allah.” Rigi’s plane was forced to land by Iranian aircraft in February while on a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan. Other accounts said he had been arrested inside Iran or Pakistan. “We have clear documents proving that Rigi was in co-operation with American, Israeli and British intelligence services,” Iran’s intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, said after Rigi’s capture. Moslehi said Rigi had been in a U.S. military base 24 hours before his arrest and was carrying an Afghan passport supplied by the United States. Read More Here
(SouthLebanon) – Noam Chomsky’s Hypocrisy
“I don’t regard myself as a critic of Israel. I regard myself a supporter of Israel … I think the U.S. should continue to support Israel”. [1] – Noam Chomsky
The American linguist Noam Chomsky is often described by Western media as “arguably the world’s most influential intellectual today”. To his friends, Chomsky is a “relentless thorn” in U.S.-Israel Zionist policies. But reading between the lines of his repetitive and recycled propaganda, Chomsky is an opportunistic hypocrite. Read More Here
(CSMonitor) – Does Israel suffer from ‘Iranophobia’?
Some Israelis argue that an ‘Iranophobia’ holds unnecessary sway over Israeli thinking about a wide range of problems, from rearming of Hezbollah to the ‘terrorist’ activists aboard the Gaza flotilla. Should Israel see less of a threat in Iran? Read More Here
As global awareness of Israeli terrorism continues to grow following the May 31 Mavi Marmara assault, an especially vocal critic is the Belgian-based Brussels Tribunal. On June 6, this writer interviewed a member of its executive committee, Dr. Ian Douglas. His words reflect the gravity of our current situation.
“Israel is seemingly unconcerned about committing murder in front of the eyes of the world,” said Douglas. Commenting specifically on their attack of a humanitarian aid ship in international waters, he said unabashedly: “This is not murder; it is destruction. There is a level of violence here that is sadistic and vengeful.”
Douglas next quoted an outspoken and acclaimed researcher in the field. Read More Here
Video: Bay Area Picket Line Stops Israeli Ship From Unloading
‘Hundreds of demonstrators, gathering at the Port of Oakland before dawn, prevented the unloading of an Israeli cargo ship. The demonstrators, demanding an end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, picketed at Berth 58, where a ship from Israel’s Zim shipping line is scheduled to dock later today. The day shift of longshoremen agreed not to cross the picket line.’
(Rense) – Israel Fearful Of An All-Women Aid Flotilla – Read More Here
(JeffGoodall) – Shock and Anger: Some reactions to the Gaza flotilla attack – Read More Here
(DesertPeace) – IS ISRAEL CONNING THE WORLD AGAIN? – Read More Here
(Canada) – Canadian who was on flotilla slams Israeli policy change
“They came attacking us with guns, fully armed commandos in the dead of the night,” said Audeh. “They wanted to scare people and make them not come back. But I think they failed and made people more determined than before.” Read More Here
(Redress) – Cutting through the confusion about Israel/Palestine
Richard Forer, a former member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), exposes the deceitful and dishonest foundations on which support for Israel is built. In a detailed letter, he outlines a path which those interested in justice and genuine peace in the Middle East can take to reach a true understanding of the Palestine-Israel conflict. Read More Here
(PoliticalTheatrics) – Israel Preparing To Repeat The “Marmara” Scenario, Lebanon to Respond – Read More Here
Video: Cutting through Israel’s propaganda war in the US
See Also: A Warning From Noam Chomsky on the Threat of Elites – Read More Here
(InTheseTimes) – Israel’s violent attack on the Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza shocked the world.
Hijacking boats in international waters and killing passengers is, of course, a serious crime.
But the crime is nothing new. For decades, Israel has been hijacking boats between Cyprus and Lebanon and killing or kidnapping passengers, sometimes holding them hostage in Israeli prisons.
Israel assumes that it can commit such crimes with impunity because the United States tolerates them and Europe generally follows the U.S.’s lead. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – Israel has refused to permit Noam Chomsky, the linguist and icon of the American left, to enter the occupied West Bank from Jordan. Some argue that Chomsky, an 81-year-old professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, could pose a risk to Israel. Norman Finkelstein says that Israel has been exposed to the world during the Gaza conflict and now feels threatened. Read the rest of this entry »
(TomDispatch) – In Washington-Speak, “Palestinian State” Means “Fried Chicken”
The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange. For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. In this case, it is not only possible, but there is near universal agreement on its basic contours: a two-state settlement along the internationally recognized (pre-June 1967) borders — with “minor and mutual modifications,” to adopt official U.S. terminology before Washington departed from the international community in the mid-1970s. Read the rest of this entry »
(PoliticalTheatrics) – Noam Chomsky, the leading leftwing intellectual, warned last week that fascism may be coming to the United States.
“I’m just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler’s speeches on the radio,” he said, “and I have a memory of the texture and the tone of the cheering mobs, and I have the dread sense of the dark clouds of fascism gathering” here at home. Read the rest of this entry »
(RawStory) – “The United States’ health care system is so dysfunctional it has about twice the health care costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes,” Chomsky told Raw Story. “This bill continues with that.”Read the rest of this entry »
If youre interested in learning more, check out the websites below. They have excellent resources and news on the latest PR, front group, and think tank offensives. Front groups do not stay around for long. They pop up like mushrooms, do their job, and then disappear. They do this so the public and media dont catch on. Read the rest of this entry »
Factual Findings narrated by Ross Vachon – Factual and Legal findings narrated by Noam Chomsky – Live Testimonies relevant to the Goldstone Report’s Findings Read the rest of this entry »
Factual Findings narrated by Ross Vachon – Factual and Legal findings narrated by Noam Chomsky – Live Testimonies relevant to the Goldstone Report’s Findings Read the rest of this entry »
Jan. 21, 2010, will go down as a dark day in the history of U.S. democracy, and its decline.
On that day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government may not ban corporations from political spending on elections—a decision that profoundly affects government policy, both domestic and international. Read the rest of this entry »
“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” Plato, ancient Greek philosophe
..“The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.” Alex Carey, Australian social scientist
“The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.” – Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. emeritus Professor of Linguistics
On Tuesday, January 19 (2010), the Obama administration got a kick in the pants from the Massachusetts voters when they filled former Senator Ted Kennedy’s seat by electing a conservative Republican candidate. The essence of their message was: stop dithering and start governing; stop trying to satisfy the bankers and please the editors of Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, and start caring for the ordinary people. Read the rest of this entry »
You might like my videos if you like: Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Ralph Nader, Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber, Matt Taibbi, Michael Albert, Bakunin, Proudhon, Amy Goodman, John Pilger, Mike Gravel, Naomi Klein. Read the rest of this entry »
(Left-Libertarian) – When I originally wrote this essay, I included Fordism as other aspect of the dehumanizing of labor. It was too long so I cut it but you can still see the remnants. Read the rest of this entry »
Disgusted Americans who vote for politicians that talk peace yet, once elected, support wars, need to get active in between elections. Just voting every four years won’t hack it. Read the rest of this entry »
A growing number of Americans and researchers suggest that many corporations in the U.S. contribute to both Democrats and Republicans, so that no matter who wins the election, corporations can still exert their influence in Washington. But, does this line of thought have any merit? As they say, let’s simply “follow the money”. Read the rest of this entry »
A growing number of Americans and researchers suggest that many corporations in the U.S. contribute to both Democrats and Republicans, so that no matter who wins the election, corporations can still exert their influence in Washington. But, does this line of thought have any merit? As they say, let’s simply “follow the money”. Read the rest of this entry »
Political activist Noam Chomsky says that although President Obama views the Iraq invasion merely as “a mistake” or “strategic blunder,” it is, in fact, a “major crime” designed to enable America to control the Middle East oil reserves. Read the rest of this entry »
Noam Chomsky, Bruce Kent, Baroness Jenny Tonge, Naji Haraj , John Pilger, Haifa Zangana and 3,346 other citizens have today on Thursday 22 October 2009 asked the United Nations General Assembly to uphold the United Nations Charter, The Geneva and Hague Conventions, and The Rome Statute of International Criminal Court and to charge Anthony Charles Lynton Blair with War Crimes in connection with the Iraq War of 2003. Read the rest of this entry »
Perhaps I may begin with a few words about the title. There is too much nuance and variety to make such sharp distinctions as theirs-and-ours, them-and-us. And neither I nor anyone can presume to speak for “us.” But I will pretend it is possible. Read the rest of this entry »
U.S. author, dissident intellectual, and Professor of Linguistics at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology Noam Chomsky met for the first time with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas and analyzed hemispheric politics during a nationally televised forum on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
Armed with a new sex scandal that can further damage Republican opponents of the Obama Administration, our media haven’t found much time to cover the U.N. Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis underway at the world organization’s headquarters in New York. But the Obama White House is working hand-in-glove with a Communist Catholic Priest who gave a bizarre speech on Wednesday devoted to saving “Mother Earth” from evil capitalists. Read the rest of this entry »
Left-wing social critic and political activist Noam Chomsky is not surprised that Americans felt “shock and indignation” when the Bush administration torture memos were released — but he is surprised that anyone would consider them surprising. Read the rest of this entry »
The US-Israeli attack on Gaza was a savage and brutal war crime. The term US- Israeli is accurate. Israel relied on US weapons, in violation of US, as well as international, law, and the US provided crucial diplomatic and ideological support. Read the rest of this entry »
(Noam Chomsky) – Historical amnesia is a dangerous social phenomenon because it lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead. Read the rest of this entry »
Noam Chomsky: The essence of the Obama/Geithner program is not all that different from the Bush/Paulsen programs, and it has been pointed out by plenty of leading specialists. Read the rest of this entry »
in the wake of the recent US-Israeli invasion of Gaza. During the murderous assault, Obama remained silent apart from a few platitudes, because, he said, there is only one president – a fact that did not silence him on many other issues. His campaign did, however, repeat his statement that “if missiles were falling where my two daughters sleep, I would do everything in order to stop that.” He was referring to Israeli children, not the hundreds of Palestinian children being butchered by US arms, about whom he could not speak, because there was only one president. Read the rest of this entry »
in the wake of the recent US-Israeli invasion of Gaza. During the murderous assault, Obama remained silent apart from a few platitudes, because, he said, there is only one president – a fact that did not silence him on many other issues. His campaign did, however, repeat his statement that “if missiles were falling where my two daughters sleep, I would do everything in order to stop that.” He was referring to Israeli children, not the hundreds of Palestinian children being butchered by US arms, about whom he could not speak, because there was only one president. Read the rest of this entry »
