Charges against North Korea escalated in September 2007, when Israel bombed an obscure site in northern Syria, an "act of war," as at least one American correspondent recognized (Seymour Hersh). Charges at once surfaced that Israel attacked a nuclear installation being developed with the help of North Korea, an attack compared with Israel's bombing of the Osirak reactor in Iraq in 1981—which, according to available evidence, convinced Saddam Hussein to initiate his nuclear weapons program. The September 2007 charges are dubious. Hersh's tentative conclusion after detailed investigation is that the Israeli actions may have been intended as another threat against Iran—the U.S.-Israel have you in their bombsights. However this may be, there is some important background that sho
“Suppose it was true that Iran is helping insurgents in Iraq. I mean, wasn’t the United States helping insurgents when the Russians invaded Afghanistan? Did we think there was anything wrong with that? I mean, Iraq’s a country that was invaded and is under military occupation. You can’t have a serious discussion about whether [...]
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In this brief 5 minute interview, Noam Chomsky touches on why the U.S. will never allow a truly free and independent Iraq, why the number one issue on American's minds - healthcare, is never discussed or seriously addressed by politicians, and who really controls the political agenda in the U.S. Interesting interview. digg story
Noam Chomsky est un linguiste étasunien très influent dans son domaine avec ce que le monde linguistique a surnommé «la révolution chomskyenne». Par contre, il est plus connu pour ses positions politiques de gauche, plus particulièrement anarchistes. Voici un extrait d’entrevue qui date de décembre 1967 lors duquel il discute du terrorisme en tant qu’acte politique.
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«Je suis bien sûr opposé au terrorisme comme toute personne rationnelle l’est. Mais je crois que si nous sommes sérieux à propos de la question de la violence nous devons reconnaître que c’est une tactique et par conséquent une question morale. Incidemment, les questions morales sont des questions tactiques qui ont à voir avec des conséquences humaines et si nous sommes intéressés, disons, à diminuer la quantité de violence dans le monde, c’est au moins défendable et peut-être même parfois vrai qu’une attaque terroriste diminue la quantité
EDUCATION by NOAM CHOMSKY"That's the image that was used... Humboldt, the founder of classical liberalism, his view was that education is a matter of laying out a string along which the child will develop, but in its own way. You may do some guiding. That's what serious education would be from kindergarten up through graduate school. You do get it in advanced science, because there's no other way to do it.But most of the educational system is quite different. Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don't think people didn't know it. They knew it and they fought against it. There was a lot of resistance to mass education for exactly that reason. It was also understood by the elites. Emerson once said so
HUMAN DESTINY by NOAM CHOMSKY"The point is you have to work, and that is why the propaganda system has been so successful. Very few people are going to have the time, or the energy or the commitment to carry out the constant battle thats required to get outside of the know, the MacNeil / Lehrer or Dan Rather or somebody like that. The easy thing to do, you know you come home from work, you're tired you've had a busy day, not going to spend the evening carrying out a research project, so you turn on the tube, say its probably right, or you look at the headlines of the papers, watch some sports, cause and that is basically the way the system of indoctrination works. Sure the other stuff is there but, you have to work to find it.Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual material gain which is accepted as legitimate, even praise worthy on the grounds that private vices
I am by no means saying that I agree whole heartedly with Noam Chomsky. I think he's a socialist/communist of the worst sort. But he does hit upon a couple of interesting points in this opinion piece. And keep in mind that it is totally an opinion piece and that he is providing no proof for anything he is saying. ~RJH Truthout Article link A Predator Becomes More Dangerous When WoundedBy Noam ChomskyThe Guardian UKFriday 09 March 2007Washington's escalation of threats against Iran is driven by a determination to secure control of the region's energy resources. In the energy-rich Middle East, only two countries have failed to subordinate themselves to Washington's basic demands: Iran and Syria. Accordingly both are enemies, Iran by far the more important. As was the norm during the cold war, resort to violence is regularly justified as a reaction to the malign influence of the main enemy, often on the flimsiest of pretexts. Unsurprisingly, as Bush sends more troops to Iraq, ta
