The Need for Truth to Challenge Power

In this interview – “Truth to Power” – by Noam Chomsky & David Mcneill, February 23 , 2014, ZNet & Japan Times, Noam Chomsky’s responses, concerning hegemony, imperialism, militarism, racism, the historical background to conflicts, the environment and the pressing need for safe and clean alternative renewable energy, the urgent need for political accommodation, dialogue, negotiation, dialogue, and compromise, are absolutely brilliant, astute, sensible, rational, prophetic, and visionary that everybody should read over and over and over and over again if we really want to save this sick planet from catastrophe ultimately. A case in point, I met a woman from Okinawa about 14 to 15 years ago in the Philippines, and she was very upset about the continuation of American military bases on her island that had caused her and many other Okinawans’ humiliation and grief, made worse by the abject failure of Japan to end the presence of the military bases that violated their sovereignty, cultural and political dignity, and self-determination. Likewise, the US de facto military bases and covert operations in the Philippines, so insidious, are causing similar problems and tension here, stirring up nationalistic sentiments, including deep-seated resentment, humiliation, and bitterness that will take many years, a long healing process, to overcome

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I have a Masters Degree in ESL from the State University of New Jersey, obtained in May, 1982, and also a BA in Religion from Temple University, philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, obtained in January, 1974. In addition, I am a bilingual poet in English and Spanish and prose writer of short stories, essays, vignettes, and travelogues, having lived, taught EFL/ESL, and traveled in Latin America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, including having taught SL Composition and reading skills to non-native spakers in the Writing Program during the Fall Semester, 1983 at Temple University, and also having taught English and Spanish, ESL, Spanish, as a bilingual, ESL, and Foreign Language Substitute Teacher in the Philadelphia Public School system from September, 1984 till January, 1985. I'm also a member of International TESOL, the Chilean Society of Writers, and the Postcolonial Studies Association.

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