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- jamesallen74, on 10/10/2007, -31/+137I still believe a few of the neo-cons in influential positions know that Al-Qaeda is not really that big of a threat to us as they tell us. That it's not a strong, unified, well-funded, global super-terror-network, but rather a few rag tags here and there. Most of the extremists over in the mideast are just amateur crazies with no money or connections.
But keeping us thinking its real benefits them. Oil? Profits for industry that benefits from us being over there?
Watch "Power of Nightmares" and see for yourself. You can see it free, just google video it. In fact, watch ANYTHING by Adam Curtis, AWESOME documentaries from BBC. - 10001110101, on 10/10/2007, -15/+110FTA: "We're not allowed to concede that our leaders have rational imperial interests."
Do you ever get the feeling that things would be so much better if Dubya just came out and said "I want to rule Iraq for the oil?"
Great article. - jmpeagle, on 10/10/2007, -14/+92despite the fact that this is from January 2006, I still dugg it as not much has changed since
- killiansman, on 10/10/2007, -23/+95Very interesting read. Noam Chomsky is a true intellectual and visionary. Why can't there be poeple like this in our government? Instead, we are stuck with power-hungry morons, who have their heads so far up their asses that they forget they are running a country.
- gyronic, on 10/10/2007, -7/+39Chomsky is correct as always.
Other things he has mentioned publicly that i agree with.
1. The CIA is a terrorist organization, no doubt. Whether you agree with the CIA's objectives is another conversation.
2. If the U.S was actually concerned about capturing Osama Bin Laden we would have had 200,000 Americans scouring Afghanistan. Instead we sent less then 50 people.
if you kill capture the bogyman, there is no face to put on the threat. - notque, on 10/10/2007, -7/+38He is not a communist, he's a Libertarian Socialist.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -7/+37LOL. You wanna buy this rock? It keeps away tigers.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+34What? You mean it's not like COBRA?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -23/+50Cue: Morons shouting "CHOMSKY IS TEH COMMIE!!!" & wiping spittle off their screens.
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/10/2007, -7/+32Chomsky is hardly a communist, he's very left but actually leans much more towards anarchism. If you had ever read even 2 words he's written he's inherently distrustful of any major power structures at all be they corporate or government
- CannedMango, on 10/10/2007, -10/+34The world is indeed much more frightening than the Paris Hilton chasing media lets us know about. Glad to know that we're supporting imperial greed through blind patriotism. Way to go everyone.
- MaynardJK, on 10/10/2007, -12/+35We have always been at war with Eurasia.
- angusm, on 10/10/2007, -4/+26Al-Qaeda not a threat? It's a huge threat! Al-Qaeda is the pretext used to panic us into shutting up and meekly letting Dick Cheney and friends do what they want. If Al-Qaeda or something like it didn't exist, they wouldn't have anything like the free hand they've had to screw things up for the last six years. So I'd call Al-Qaeda a pretty huge threat to our way of life, wouldn't you?
- rizla420, on 10/10/2007, -5/+25I'm surprised we havent heard more from Chomsky lately. I guess he's getting to the point where he's said it all and is just watching it all unfold and thinking to himself... "i told them so.." Lucky for him he wont be alive to really see how all this ends. As for me I have front row seats.
- joe7845, on 10/10/2007, -7/+27This is the kind of guy who thiks clearly, has an extraordinary read on a situation, and can also explain things clearly. For example...
"A large majority of the population is in favor of a national health care system of some kind. And that's been true for a long time. But whenever that comes up -- it's occasionally mentioned in the press -- it's called politically impossible, or "lacking political support," which is a way of saying that the insurance industry doesn't want it, the pharmaceutical corporations don't want it, and so on." - notque, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21He's a Libertarian Socialist. Not a communist. He's against communism, and certainly Leninism. He thinks that human beings do not need a specialized class of people to control them.
He has mostly anarchist tendencies in that regard like the workers rights movements in American which fought for a 40 hour work week which has been eroded. Stop the lies. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22@killiansman: because true intellectuals and visionaries almost never want to be politicians. They generally want to be teachers. Why would a person with a brain like that willingly see it criminally diluted by the hundreds of other politicians who would (as they always, always do) assess a visionary intellect as a "threat" and do everything they could to bring it down?
- notque, on 10/10/2007, -13/+32http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4054523048548733881&q=chomsky&total=1977&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
Distorted Morality by Noam Chomsky
And a short one, Noam Chomsky speaking on the 9/11 conspiracy (He thinks it's extraordinarily unlikely)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=518368961137474014
Excellent website with tons of Noam Chomsky articles
chomsky.info
Bunch of great torrents with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and others
onebigtorrent.org
Real News
democracynow.org
Internet radio station with lots of chomsky
http://www.radiochomsky.com/ - swoopdog, on 10/10/2007, -4/+22Thank you, as a Libertarian Socialist I was going to correct the assumption before the neo-cons who label everyone left of hitler as a communist.
- rationalist, on 10/10/2007, -4/+21Probably before you will let go of that tired old bogeyman.
- notque, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20He's also said, "The best way to stop terrorism is to stop participating in it."
- notque, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19I can't wait until we have a war on jealousy.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -17/+34God bless Chomsky.
- Waiting2awake, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17 Sounds fair to me. You can't go against some "thing", while being that "thing".
- swoopdog, on 10/10/2007, -4/+20oh thats right because you yourself are an MIT professor and your work in the field of linguistics has revolutionized the field of language study...
I think he is the foremost intellectual of our time and I don't think thats a marginal point of view. - Terh, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Let's just have a war on all emotions.
- neozeed, on 10/10/2007, -4/+19But, but we've always been at war with terror! You know coalition of the willing (Poland) and all that.
- 10001110101, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16War on Logic.
- krnldmp, on 10/10/2007, -9/+24Like it or lump it, al-Qaida is mainly fear up your ass so the United States Government can remain bigger and more corrupt than anything a good old-fashined commie hater was ever afraid of.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+20Yeah, I wish he would. I think of a hundred good reasons to go to war over oil, but I can't think of any to compel a fight for invisible WMDs
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16similar to what salomejones said, 'power-hungry morons' are into politics because that's what politics is about, the accrual and use of power, even over money since most big CEOs make tons more than many politicians. Even Chomsky frequently points out that the actions of politicians are perfectly rational given their real goals and desires.
- KhanneaSuntzu, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18Perfectly sane, totally correct, and as a result of me saying this this comment will be immediately censored.
- slipgrid, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Those who control the past, control the future. Those who control the present, control that past.
-George Orwell, 1984 - Homunculiheaded, on 10/10/2007, -6/+19Chomsky has actually been (as always) very busy
here's a list audio/visual records available: http://www.chomsky.info/audionvideo.htm
and here's a list of articles, 4 of which were published this year: http://www.chomsky.info/articles.htm
Not to mention the book that's less then a year old: http://www.amazon.com/Failed-States-Abuse-Assault-Democracy/dp/0805082840/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/104-0815410-6035946?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186073791&sr=8-2
And honestly I'm not a huge Chomsky fan (although I do think he makes a lot of brilliant points). If you haven't heard much from chomsky recently it isn't because he's not saying anything. - SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/10/2007, -5/+18Liar. You're not sorry.
- Terr01, on 10/10/2007, -5/+18Exactly.
"The "war on terror" is a fiction. The idea of "terror" as some big dark monolith is bogus. This is a worldview of people who haven't grown out of thinking in terms of G.I. Joe and the evil clutches of Cobra!" - enakra, on 10/10/2007, -5/+18You obviously didn't read the article. The title is misleading and somewhat out of context. RTFA.
- jmpeagle, on 10/10/2007, -6/+19ummm...the only people we have to blame is ourselves. We vote them into office. 98% of people who vote, either vote for the Democrats or Republicans.
- danarama, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13why's posting a relevant link abuse again?
- notque, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15The number of terrorist attacks going up, which our government agrees with. I'm sorry that you don't happen to pay attention to these things.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15Actually he's been quite busy writing books and teaching linguistics at MIT for the past few decades. :)
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14There's no war on terror, because you can't have a war on a proper noun. Oh, and about that Anthrax.. did they ever get the guy who did that? ;)
- jlharrity, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1277. It says so in the first paragraph.
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I think that quote on the 911 conspiracy is one of the most clear and simple rebuttals of all that non-sense from one of the strongest critics of our current government that there is.
- notque, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13If you read Chomsky you'd know he disagrees with your assessment that they don't know what they are doing. I suggest you read more and start to understand the world. They know exactly what they are doing, and always have.
Now, the President generally doesn't since Reagan. They've turned the president into a literal spokesperson like a company selling you a product would, which makes sense considering elections are all about that. Their hair, their dress. Their personality. The same way they sell you detergent. - notque, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14He puts out stuff constantly. You haven't heard from him because you haven't searched to find him.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12What's funny is, we'll now get a bunch of these guys going "Socialism *IS* Communism!!!"
- Jexie, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14He's talking about the dozen's of suicide bombings everyday in Iraq, against Americans and Iraqi's. Something that was not happening before your monkey invaded the place.
- Waiting2awake, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12 Defensive? While you attacked them? WOW, the news-speak is in full effect.
- notque, on 10/10/2007, -7/+17http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=13383
What is at Stake in Iraq
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