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Kennedy School of Government, November 29, 2005 Note: the transcript is incomplete. There doesn’t seem to be a better version online. ALAN…
Hastings: Where do you see Iraq heading right now? Chomsky: Well, it’s extremely difficult to talk about this because of a very…
Celebrating a new year is an entirely sentimental decision, relevant to some, extraneous to others, and can indeed serve a greater purpose…
Three years ago in Boston, downtown streets and office buildings were the scene of inspiring immigrant worker activism during an unprecedented strike…
As we close this year, a year in which we were pummeled by the Iraq war, attacks on our civil rights, and…
Journalists should be in the business of providing timely information to the public. But some — notably at the top rungs of…
Despite all the news accounts and punditry since the New York Times published its Dec. 16 bombshell about the National Security Agency’s…
Palestinian political life seems to be unwittingly embracing a distinctive style, contradicting its own traditional political parameters. The last few weeks clearly…
First of all, happy birthday. Thank you. December 7th is also the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It’s also the…
Andy Clark: Let’s start off by talking about the elections in Iraq. Let’s hear how President Bush was billing them just a…
Congress passed just before Christmas legislation allowing evidence obtained by torture to be used against Guantanamo captives and denying them the right…
The trial of Orhan Pamuk puts a spotlight on Turkey as never before. Many politicians, periodicals, and human-rights groups have criticized Turkey’s…
US President George W. Bush yet once again blamed Arab media for his country’s image problem. ‘I recognize we got an image…
Three days before Christmas, the Bush administration launched a new salvo of bright spinning lies about the Iraq war. “In an interview…
I turned with interest to Oliver Kamm’s critique (Prospect, November 2005) of the “crude and dishonest arguments” he attributes to me, hoping…
Interviewer: This is Irene from No One’s Listening, but in honor of your appearance on the show today we’re entitling it Noam’s…
In many ways a year-end review is artificial. The structures of injustice, oppression and environmental destruction continue to grind people down and…
More than a dozen years ago, I joined with Jeff Cohen (founder of the media watch group FAIR) to establish the P.U.-litzer…
In a landmark speech before a most friendly audience at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis on November 30, President Bush repeated…
Review: Aristide and the Endless Revolution. 2005. Baraka Productions. 83 min. Movie site: www.aristidethefilm.com Available from www.firstrunfeatures.com Each fact is disputed. Haiti’s…
No buzzards were gliding overhead, but several helicopters circled, under black sky tinged blue. On the shore of a stunning bay at…
With public support for the Iraq war at low ebb, the White House is more eager than ever to conflate Iraq’s insurgency…
The U.S. government is waging an air war in Iraq. “In recent months, the tempo of American bombing seems to have increased, 
How has the Bush administration gotten away with such apparently illegal acts as hiding intelligence reports from Congress, creating secret prisons, establishing…
ON JULY 11, 2005, WITH great nuance and tact, Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff General Hillier described the forces arrayed against…
Newspapers across the United States and beyond told readers Wednesday about sensational new statements by a former top assistant to Colin Powell…
From Eastport, Maine to Los Angeles, California, North Americans concerned about global warming are holding events later this week to demand action…
1. On Reconstruction Anthony DiMaggio: The “humanitarian reconstruction” of Iraq has been acknowledged to a large degree as a failure in the…
Within progressive circles there’s growing talk about the 2006 and the 2008 elections. The Bush/Cheney free fall to an average, between them,…
Bob Woodward probably hoped that the long holiday weekend would break the momentum of an uproar that suddenly confronted him midway through…
The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an “insurrection of subjugated knowledge”. The insurrection is well under way. In trying to…
When Thanksgiving arrives, the media coverage is mostly predictable. Feature stories tell of turkeys and food drives for the needy. We hear…
Starting Nov. 25, Palestinians from the Gaza Strip may, in theory, be able to freely cross the Rafah border into Egypt, according…
Revised: Nov. 2005 typos corrected Oct. 2011 (This draft benefited from conversations with many people, but especially Michael Albert and Cynthia Peters,…
Thanksgiving week began with the New York Times noting that “all of Washington is consumed with debate over the direction of the…
Despite initial claims that Yasser Arafat’s absence – as an ‘obstacle’ to peace – would reinvigorate the Arab-Israel peace process, events on…
Three weeks ago, Prof. Noam Chomsky was voted the most important public intellectual in the world today. About 20,000 people took part…
How do activists become activists? How do they choose what issue or issues to work on? And how do they decide to…
How do activists become activists? How do they choose what issue or issues to work on? And how do they decide to…
This is an open letter to a few of the people with whom I had discussed the Guardian interview of 31 October,…
Steven Durel: Professor Chomsky, for forty years now you have been a leading voice in political action and social justice. After this…
I was dropped at Paradiso, the last middle-class area before barrio La Vega, which spills into a ravine as if by the…
President George W. Bush favours teaching both evolution and “Intelligent Design” in schools, “so people can know what the debate is about.”…
[This is an edited excerpt of the Introduction to IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY: AMERICAN WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ AND BEYOND edited…
Going to Venezuela? There are beautiful waterfalls and mountains. There is rich surf, sand, and sun. But nowadays the biggest attraction is…
The huge gap between Tehran and Washington has widened in recent months. Top officials of Iran and the United States are not…
This October I spent a week in Buenos Aires, Argentina learning about Argentina’s workers movement to recuperate factories. During the recent corporate…
A lot of media outlets are now scrutinizing some of the lies told by the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq.…
Many politicians and pundits have told us that “Iraq is not Vietnam.” Certainly, any competent geographer would agree. Substantively, the histories of…
By now, millions of TV viewers have seen the video numerous times on television: Two police officers are beating a man on…
