In the case of crimes, the first steps are (1) determining who was probably guilty, apprehending them, and bringing them to a…
Noam Chomsky
The media delight in being portrayed as “adversarial,” sometimes even going overboard in their efforts to subvert power. There are some remarkable…
Long-time New York Times and Wall St Journal Middle East correspondent Youssef Ibrahim, who is quite knowledgeable, recently wrote that a large…
[Nader wrote a response to a letter many, including Chomsky, signed. Noam was asked his reactions to Nader’s criticisms of the letter…
What’s happened since 1982 (when I wrote The Fateful Triangle) is a mixed story. Some of it is reviewed in the extended…
In dealing with enemies (say, Pol Pot, or Maoist China), we properly attribute to them deaths caused by starvation, disease, overwork, etc.,…
In mid-September, the NYT reported that the US was ordering Pakistan to restrict food shipments, at a time when they also reported…
We should not be caught up in the massive propaganda campaign to focus attention, laser-like, on quadrennial personalized extravaganzas as if that…
A few weeks ago there was a well-reported incident in which a Marine commander who opposed both the attack and the later…
“We live in an era of media concentration, vast efforts on many fronts (political, economic, military, ideological) to insulate state and private…