Obama vs. Abdulelah Haider Shaye
Part of the transcript of recent speaking event featuring Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, and Jeremy Scahill (on the occasion of the publication of Scahill’s book DIRTY WARS) JEREMY SCAHILL: Just a couple of things in response to that. I was remembering, when you were talking about David Hicks’ story, this case that I came across […]
Palestine 2012 — Gaza and the UN resolution
By Noam Chomsky, December 1, 2012http://chomsky.info/articles/20121201.htm An old man in Gaza held a placard that reads: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all but I am to blame: I shot […]
Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Future
Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The CrisisUnderstanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Other PlayersUnderstanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Recent HistoryUnderstanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Looking BackwardsUnderstanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Future What is the “Road Map” that President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, on the eve of the Iraq war, seem so convinced will end the Palestine-Israel […]
Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Recent History
Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The CrisisUnderstanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Other PlayersUnderstanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Recent HistoryUnderstanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Looking BackwardsUnderstanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Future This whole thing happened after the famous handshake on the White House lawn. Wasn’t that supposed to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians? The famous handshake […]
Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Other Players
Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The CrisisUnderstanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Other PlayersUnderstanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Recent HistoryUnderstanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Looking BackwardsUnderstanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Future Why is the Israel-Palestine conflict so important on the global stage? Why does the rest of the world care, and get so involved, in this conflict in such […]
Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Crisis
Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The CrisisUnderstanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Other PlayersUnderstanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Recent HistoryUnderstanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Looking BackwardsUnderstanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Future Why is there so much violence in the Middle East? Isn’t there violence on both sides? The violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories has come from […]
The Week the World Stood Still: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Ownership of the World
The world stood still 50 years ago during the last week of October, from the moment when it learned that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba until the crisis was officially ended — though unknown to the public, only officially. The image of the world standing still is the turn of phrase […]
Discussion on the Cuban Five
Discussion on the Cuban Five Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 8, 2006 Screening of “Mission Against Terror”, a documentary about the Cuban Five. After the showing of the film, Professor Chomsky answered questions from the audience. For more information on the on-going case of the Cuban Five, visit http://www.freethefive.org. Woman: Since we are in the […]
Plan Colombia by Noam Chomsky
Excerpted from Rogue States, 2000: In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of US military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). Colombia receives more US military aid than the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean combined. The total for 1999 reached about $300 million, along with $60 […]
On the U.S. List of State Sponsored Terrorism
The U.S List of State Sponsored Terrorism has been a historic joke, in fact, a sick joke. Let’s take a look at the history of the terrorist list. Up until 1982, Iraq — Saddam Hussein’s Iraq — was on the terrorist list. In 1982, the Reagan administration removed Iraq from the terrorist list. Why? Because they […]