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Interesting political dichotomy - 11/18/2005 7:37:14 AM   
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At the same time, the administration is trying to shut down websites dealing with consensual torture, it is arguing that nonconsensual torture is all right http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-11-04-cheneytortureban_x.htm

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/18/2005 7:45:44 AM   
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I thought Room 101 encompassed every state already. :D We recently had Robert Fisk in town and having read his columns diligently for months it was night to hear him speak in an auditorium and have a generous amount of times for questions. He bemoaned the lack of freedom of expression in the US, something which Chomsky and others suffer from routinely.
This kind of hypocrisy and distortion and is the leitmotif of the Bush administration unfortunately, and the sooner the Republicans are ousted the better it will be for the US and the rest of the world. I cannot imagine the national embarassment of having HIM as your President....but for a few Floridian chads things might have been different. Maybe not greatly better, but different nonetheless.

Are general everyday Americans aware of just how much ridicule Bush faces in the "allied" countries ? He is almost singlehandedly responsible for the revival of our cartoonist industry.....

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/18/2005 7:52:04 AM   
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quote:

Are general everyday Americans aware of just how much ridicule Bush faces in the "allied" countries ? He is almost singlehandedly responsible for the revival of our cartoonist industry.....


General, what a word. No, I don't believe they are. Just as we don't hear about the attempted assassination attempts every time he leaves this country either. Some of us do, but some of us do digging outside our borders.

One thing to learn about Americans is most are happy because nothing is bothering them today. So, they do nothing. It isn’t until something affects them personally that they even attempt to take action; even then the attention span is not there to carry out the job.

Yes, I am American but I also know people.

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/18/2005 9:34:51 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Jacques1000


We recently had Robert Fisk in town and having read his columns diligently for months


Quelle surprise.

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it was night to hear him speak in an auditorium and have a generous amount of times for questions. He bemoaned the lack of freedom of expression in the US, something which Chomsky and others suffer from routinely.


Gee, that's odd. Lack of freedom of expression? For Noam Chomsky?

It looks like his website's up...you'd think the CIA would've launched a DDOS attack by now. I wonder what we'll find there?

Hmmm.... A section with links to all the books he's written... either the text of the book itself or a link to the publisher where you can buy it:

· Profit over People. 1999.
· Secrets, Lies and Democracy. 1994.
· Keeping the Rabble in Line. 1994.
· The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many. 1993.
· Year 501. 1993.
· What Uncle Sam Really Wants. 1992.
· Deterring Democracy. 1992.
· Necessary Illusions. 1989.
· "Human Rights" and American Foreign Policy. 1978.
· Counter-Revolutionary Violence. 1973.

And look at that! Some of those publishers are in the -- gasp! -- United States!

Hey! There's more! Not just "Books", but "Book Excerpts" too!

· The Resort to Force. Excerpted from Hegemony or Survival. 2004.
· Priorities and Prospects. Excerpted from Hegemony or Survival. 2003.
· Cuba in the Cross-Hairs: A Near Half-Century of Terror. Excerpted from Hegemony or Survival. 2003.
· Afterword. Excerpted from Hegemony or Survival. 2003.
· Footnotes. Excerpted from Hegemony or Survival. 2003.
· The US in the World. Excerpted from Power and Terror. 2003.
· Selections. Excerpted from Media Control. 2002.
· The Journalist from Mars. Excerpted from Media Control. 2002.
· Quotations. Excerpted from Media Control. 2002.
· The Fate of an Honest Intellectual. Excerpted from Understanding Power. 2002.
· An Exchange on Manufacturing Consent. Excerpted from Understanding Power. 2002.
· The Propaganda Model. Excerpted from Understanding Power. 2002.
· Spectator Sports. Excerpted from Understanding Power. 2002.
· Brainwashing and Watergate. Excerpted from Understanding Power. 2002.
· Canada's Media. Excerpted from Understanding Power. 2002.
· Footnotes. Excerpted from Understanding Power. 2002.
· Human Nature and Moral Values. Excerpted from Understanding Power. 2002.
· Selections. Excerpted from 9-11. 2001.
· Selections. Excerpted from Propaganda and the Public Mind. 2001.
· The 'Chomskyan Era'. Excerpted from The Architecture of Language. 2000.
· US to World: Get Out of the Way. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.
· War and Conquest. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.
· Rogues Gallery; Rogue States; Crisis in the Balkans. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.
· East Timor Retrospective. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.
· Cuba and U.S. Government. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.
· Putting on the Pressure: Latin America. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.
· "Recovering Rights" - A Crooked Path. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.
· The Legacy of War. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.
· Socioeconomic Sovereignty. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.
· Plan Colombia. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.
· War is Peace. Excerpted from Fateful Triangle. 1999.
· "Stability". Excerpted from Fateful Triangle. 1999.
· Lessons from Kosovo. Excerpted from The New Military Humanism. 1999.
· Selections. Excerpted from The Common Good. 1998.
· Selections. Excerpted from Powers and Prospects. 1996.
· Robert McNamara. Excerpted from Class Warfare. 1995.
· Education is Ignorance. Excerpted from Class Warfare. 1995.
· Looking for the Magic Answer? Excerpted from Class Warfare. 1995.
· Israel, the Holocaust, and Anti-Semitism. Excerpted from Chronicles of Dissent. 1992.
· Pearl Harbor. Excerpted from Chronicles of Dissent. 1992.
· Selections. Excerpted from Chronicles of Dissent. 1992.
· Preface. Excerpted from Manufacturing Consent. 1988.
· A Propaganda Model. Excerpted from Manufacturing Consent. 1988.
· Conclusions. Excerpted from Manufacturing Consent. 1988.
· Preface. Excerpted from Knowledge of Language. 1986.
· Knowledge of Language as a Focus of Inquiry. Excerpted from Knowledge of Language. 1986.
· Concepts of Language. Excerpted from Knowledge of Language. 1986.
· Personal Influences. Excerpted from The Chomsky Reader. 1983.
· What the World is Really Like: Who Knows It -- and Why. Excerpted from The Chomsky Reader. 1983.
· Leninism & State Captialism. Excerpted from Towards a New Cold War. 1982.
· The Carter Administration. Excerpted from Radical Priorities. 1981.
· Watergate. Excerpted from Radical Priorities. 1981.
· Introduction. Excerpted from The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism. 1979.
· The Dominican Republic. Excerpted from The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism. 1979.
· The Nazi Parallel. Excerpted from The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism. 1979.
· Selections. Excerpted from After the Cataclysm. 1979.
· Triumphs of Democracy. Excerpted from Language and Responsibility. 1977.
· Empiricism and Rationalism. Excerpted from Language and Responsibility. 1977.
· The Function of the University in a Time of Crisis. Excerpted from For Reasons of State. 1972.
· Notes on Anarchism. Excerpted from For Reasons of State. 1972.
· Linguistic Contributions to the Study of Mind. Excerpted from Language and Mind. 1968.

How 'bout we follow the other link titled "Articles"? Wonder what we'll find.

· Intelligent Design?. Khaleej Times. October 6, 2005.
· Wanted a Leader for America. Khaleej Times. October 5, 2005.
· We Must Act Now to Prevent Another Hiroshima -- or Worse. The Independent. August 7, 2005.
· The Manipulation of Fear. Tehelka. July 16, 2005.
· It's Imperialism, Stupid. Khaleej Times. July 4, 2005.
· What We Know. Boston Review. Summer, 2005.
· The Social Security Non-Crisis. Khaleej Times. June 1, 2005.
· Imperial Presidency. Canadian Dimension. January/February, 2005.
· On Colombia. In Doug Stokes, America's Other War. December, 2004.
· 2004 Elections. ZNet. November 29, 2004.
· Reshaping History. Al-Ahram Weekly. November 18-24, 2004.
· The Disconnect in US Democracy. Khaleej Times. October 29, 2004.
· Understanding the Bush Doctrine. Information Clearing House. October 2, 2004.
· From Central America to Iraq. Khaleej Times. August 6, 2004.
· How America Determines Friends and Foes. The Toronto Star. March 14, 2004.
· US-Haiti. ZNet. March 9, 2004.
· A Wall as a Weapon. The New York Times. February 23, 2004.
· What a Fair Trial for Saddam Would Entail. The Toronto Star. January 25, 2004.
· Selective Memory and a Dishonest Doctrine. The Toronto Star. December 21, 2003.
· The Iraq War and Contempt for Democracy. ZNet. October 31, 2003.
· Dominance and its Dilemmas. Boston Review. October, 2003.
· Reasons to Fear U.S. The Toronto Star. September 7, 2003.
· Preventive War 'the Supreme Crime'. ZNet. August 11, 2003.
· Deep Concerns. ZNet. March 20, 2003.
· The Case Against U.S. Adventurism in Iraq. Star Tribune. March 13, 2003.
· Wars of Terror. New Political Science. March, 2003.
· The People in Gravest Danger. New Humanist. March 1, 2003.
· Reply to Lycan. Chomsky and His Critics. 2003.
· Reply to Millikan. Chomsky and His Critics. 2003.
· Human Rights Week 2002. ZNet. December 28, 2002.
· A Modest Proposal. ZNet. December 3, 2002.
· The Faculty of Language. (with M. D. Hauser & W. T. Fitch) Science. November 22, 2002.
· Drain the Swamp and There Will Be No More Mosquitoes. The Guardian. September 9, 2002.
· What Americans Have Learnt --and not Learnt-- Since 9/11. The Age. September 7, 2002.
· The Crimes of 'Intcom'. Foreign Policy. September, 2002.
· Mirror Crack'd. Outlook India. September, 2002.
· Terror and Just Response. ZNet. July 2, 2002.
· Constructive Action? Red Pepper. May 11, 2002.
· Who are the Global Terrorists? In Ken Booth (ed.), Worlds in Collision. May, 2002.
· Back in the USA. Red Pepper. May, 2002.
· The War In Afghanistan. Z Magazine. February 1, 2002.
· A Quick Reaction. International Relations Center. September 12, 2001.
· Neocolonial Invitation to a Tribal War. Los Angeles Times. August 13, 2001.
· Introduction: Project Censored 25th Anniversary. In Peter Phillips (ed.), Project Censored 2001. April, 2001.
· Voting Patterns and Abstentions. Z Magazine. February, 2001.
· How US Democracy Triumphed Again. The Independent. January 14, 2001.
· Elections 2000. Z Magazine. January, 2001.
· Blinded by the Truth. Al-Ahram Weekly. Number 506, 2-8 November, 2000.
· The Colombia Plan: April 2000. Z Magazine. June, 2000.
· A Review of NATO’s War over Kosovo. Z Magazine. April-May, 2000.
· Another Way For Kosovo? Le Monde diplomatique. March 14, 2000.
· Thoughts Of A Secular Sufi. 2000.
· East Timor Questions & Answers. Z Magazine. October, 1999.
· East Timor Retrospective. Le Monde diplomatique. October, 1999.
· East Timor. September 10, 1999.
· Domestic Terrorism. New Political Science. September, 1999.
· Why Americans Should Care about East Timor. Mother Jones. August 26, 1999.
· Kosovo Peace Accord. Z Magazine. July, 1999.
· Crisis in the Balkans. Z Magazine. May, 1999.
· The Current Bombings: Behind the Rhetoric. March, 1999.
· The US and the "Challenge of Relativity". In Tony Evans (ed.), Human Rights Fifty Years on. November, 1998.
· A Century Later. Peace Review. September, 1998.
· Hordes of Vigilantes & Popular Elements Defeat MAI, for Now. Z Magazine. August, 1998.
· Jubilee 2000. ZNet. May 15, 1998.
· Domestic Constituencies. Z Magazine. May, 1998.
· Rogue States. Z Magazine. April, 1998.
· Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality . Z Magazine. November, 1997.
· What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream. Z Magazine. October, 1997.
· The Passion for Free Markets. Z Magazine. May, 1997.
· The Culture of Fear. In Javier Giraldo, Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy. July, 1996.
· Old Wine in New Bottles: A Bitter Taste. EJROT. June, 1996.
· Israel, Lebanon, and the "Peace Process". April 23, 1996.
· Review of Man of the People: A Life of Harry S Truman by Alonzo L Hamby. The Guardian. March 8, 1996.
· Eastern Exposure: Misrepresenting the Peace Process. The Village Voice Literary Supplement. February 6, 1996.
· Consent without Consent. Cleveland State Law Review. 1996.
· A Painful Peace. Z Magazine. January, 1996.
· Guilt of War Belongs to All. The Observer. July 30, 1995.
· Memories. Z Magazine. July-August, 1995.
· Rollback. Z Magazine. January-May, 1995.
· Introduction. In Juan Pablo Ordoñez, No Human Being is Disposable. 1995.
· Rationality/Science. Z Papers Special Issue. 1995.
· Democracy Restored. Z Magazine. November, 1994.
· An Island Lies Bleeding. The Guardian. July 5, 1994.
· Democracy Enhancement. Z Magazine. May-August, 1994.
· On The U.S. Human Rights Record. The New Stateman. July, 1994.
· The Clinton Vision: Update. Z Magazine. January, 1994.
· Humanitarian Intervention. Boston Review. December, 1993 - January, 1994.
· The Clinton Vision. Z Magazine. December, 1993.
· The Israel-Arafat Agreement. Z Magazine. October, 1993.
· "Limited War" in Lebanon. Z Magazine. September, 1993.
· No Longer Safe. Z Magazine. May, 1993.
· Notes of NAFTA: "The Masters of Man". The Nation. March, 1993.
· "Mandate for Change," or Business as Usual. Z Magazine. February, 1993.
· Vain Hopes, False Dreams. Z Magazine. September, 1992.
· Middle East Diplomacy: Continuities and Changes. Z Magazine. December, 1991.
· International Terrorism: Image and Reality. In Alexander George (ed.), Western State Terrorism. December, 1991.
· Aftermath. Z Magazine. October, 1991.
· Force and Opinion. Z Magazine. July-August, 1991.
· "What We Say Goes": The Middle East in the New World Order. Z Magazine. May, 1991.
· Gulf War Pullout. Z Magazine. February, 1991.
· The Gulf Crisis. Z Magazine. February, 1991.
· The Victors. Z Magazine. November, 1990.
· The Decline of the Democratic Ideal. Z Magazine. May, 1990.
· Revolution of '89. The Nation. January 29, 1990.
· Invasion Newspeak: U.S. & USSR. FAIR. December, 1989.
· Scenes from the Uprising. Z Magazine. July, 1988.
· Central America: The Next Phase. Z Magazine. March, 1988.
· Is Peace at Hand? Z Magazine. January, 1988.
· The Empire and Ourselves. A Solidarity Pamphlet. April 9, 1986.
· Visions of Righteousness. Cultural Critique. Spring, 1986.
· The Soviet Union Versus Socialism. Our Generation. Spring/Summer, 1986.
· His Right to Say It. The Nation. February 28, 1981.
· Some Elementary Comments on the Rights of Freedom of Expression. October, 1980.
· Discussion of Putnam's Comments. In Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini (ed.), Language and Learning. 1980.
· Language Development, Human Intelligence, and Social Organization. In Equality and Social Policy. 1978.
· Distortions at Fourth Hand. The Nation. June 25, 1977.
· The Meaning of Vietnam. The New York Review of Books. June 12, 1975.
· The Repression at Belgrade University. The New York Review of Books. February 7, 1974.
· The President and the Presidency. Liberation. November, 1973.
· Watergate: A Skeptical View. The New York Review of Books. September 20, 1973.
· Vietnam: How Government Became Wolves. The New York Review of Books. June 15, 1972.
· The Pentagon Papers and U.S. Imperialism in South East Asia. The Spokesman. Winter 1972/3.
· The Case Against B.F. Skinner. The New York Review of Books. December 30, 1971.
· Mayday: The Case for Civil Disobedience. The New York Review of Books. June 17, 1971.
· Foreword. In Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam. 1971.
· After Pinkville. In Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam. 1971.
· In Defense of the Student Movement. 1971.
· In North Vietnam. The New York Review of Books. August 13, 1970.
· A Visit to Laos. The New York Review of Books. July 23, 1970.
· Cambodia. The New York Review of Books. June 4, 1970.
· Notes on Anarchism. In Daniel Guerin, Anarchism: From Theory to Practice. 1970.
· The Menace of Liberal Scholarship.The New York Review of Books. January 2, 1969.
· Reflections on a Political Trial. The New York Review of Books. August 22, 1968.
· Philosophers and Public Philosophy. Philosophy and Public Affairs. October, 1968.
· On Resistance. The New York Review of Books. December 7, 1967.
· On the Backgrounds of the Pacific War. Liberation. September - October 1967.
· The Responsibility of Intellectuals. The New York Review of Books. February 23, 1967.
· Review of Skinner's Verbal Behavior. In Jakobovits & Miron (eds.), Readings in the Psychology of Language. 1967.

Oh, hey look. Audio and Video!

· Chomsky Torrents. Plenty of Chomsky-related video material.
· Chomsky's Basic View of the World. G'Day World. October 25, 2005.
· On the Consequences of the Iraq Invasion. The Charles Goyette Show. June 8, 2005.
· Discourses on Iraq and the Middle East. MIT World. May 4, 2005.
· On Social Activism. Washington State University. April 22, 2005.
· Imminent Crises: Responsibilities and Opportunities. Washington State University. April 22, 2005.
· Illegal but Legitimate: a Dubious Doctrine for the Times. University of Washington. April 20, 2005.
· On the New Iraqi Government. KUOW. April 20, 2005.
· On Language and Freedom. University of Bologna. April 1, 2005.
· Forgotten History. Academic and Research Network of Slovenia. March 29, 2005.
· The United States, Israel, and Palestine. University of Leipzig. March 28, 2005.
· Illegal but Legitimate: a Dubious Doctrine for the Times. University of Edinburgh. March 22, 2005.
· The Idea of Universality in Linguistics and Human Rights. Technology and Culture Forum (MIT). March 15, 2005.
· The United States in the Middle East. February 15, 2005. Lebanese Student Club at MIT.
· On the State of Things. Left Business Observer. February 10, 2005.
· The Future of Iraq and U.S. Occupation. International Relations Center. January 26, 2005.
· Life With Noam Chomsky. Radio Islam. January 12, 2005.
· On the Election. Common Sense. November 30, 2004.
· The Life and Times of Noam Chomsky. Democracy Now. November 26, 2004.
· On the US Elections and the Independent Media Movement. Radioactive San Diego. November 23, 2004.
· Illegal but Legitimate: A Dubious Doctrine for the Times. The Earth Institute. November 16, 2004.
· Simple Truths, Hard Problems. Frumkes Lecture. November 15, 2004.
· On Yasser Arafat, Iraq and the Draft. Democracy Now. November 15, 2004.
· On the U.S. Election. Real Show with Bill Maher. November 5, 2004.
· Illegal but Legitimate: A Dubious Doctrine for the Times. Academic Freedom Lecture. October 28, 2004.
· On the State of the Nation, Iraq and the Election. Democracy Now. October 21, 2004.
· Empire-Building: Domestic and International Consequences. Technology and Culture Forum (MIT). October 8, 2004.
· On Reagan's Legacy. Democracy Now. June 7, 2004.
· On Hegemony or Survival. The Majority Report. June 3, 2004.
· On the Ideology of the New World Order. 'Another World is Possible! Network' (Budapest). June, 2004.
· American Hegemony or Human Survival? Your Call Radio. May 27, 2004.
· Preventive Warriors. Democracy Now. May 27, 2004.
· Doctrines and Visions. University of Oxford. May 20, 2004.
· On American Imperialism and British Me Too-ism. BBC News. May 19, 2004.
· On "Democratizing" Iraq and Negroponte's Appointment to Iraq's Embassy. Cambridge Forum. April 29, 2004.
· Iraq and Beyond. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. April 19, 2004.
· On Terrorism and the Occupation of Iraq. Speech Delivered on the International Day of Action. March 20, 2004.
· Haiti's History. Democracy Now. March 17, 2004.
· The Militarization of Science and Space. Technology and Culture Forum (MIT). February 15, 2004.
· On Bush and Empire. Left Business Observer. January 22, 2004.
· A Review of 2003. Democracy Now. December 31, 2003.
· On Iraq, War Profiteers & The Media. Democracy Now. December 26, 2003.
· Interview with Noam Chomsky. BBC. December 21, 2003.
· Chat on Hegemony or Survival. MSNBC. December 15, 2003.
· Propaganda and War: Iraq and Beyond. Emerson College. November 24, 2003.
· On the Internet, the Middle East, and Democratic Elections. The Charlie Rose Show. November 20, 2003.
· Hegemony or Survival. The Tavis Smiley Show. November 19, 2003.
· Hegemony or Survival: Author Audio. November 1, 2003.
· The Aftermath of September 11. Fermilab. October 8, 2003.
· Noam Chomsky on Hegemony or Survival. Illinois State University. October 7, 2003.
· On the U.S. and the world. Media Matters. October 5, 2003.
· On his Political Activism, U.S. Foreign Policy and Other Topics. C-Span. June 1, 2003.
· Does the USA Intend to Dominate the Whole World by Force? Radio Netherlands. May 30, 2003.
· On U.S.-Korean relations. Democracy Now. May 14, 2003.
· On the Invasion of Iraq. Democracy Now. April 17, 2003.
· On the Invasion of Iraq and the Peace Movement. Office of the Americas. April 6, 2003.
· The World After the Iraq Invasion. KGNU radio. April 5, 2003.
· Iraq and the Imperial Vision. Power Gym, Conte Forum. March 23, 2003.
· Another World: Alternative Ways to Globalization. Harvard Graduate School of Education. February 28, 2003.
· On U.S. Empire and the Global Movement Against. Democracy Now. February 18, 2003.
· On the Anti-War Movement. The Connection. January 23, 2003.
· Why Iraq? Harvard University. November 4, 2002.
· On the "War on Terror". Milwaukee Area Technical College. November 1, 2002.
· Unending Wars: The U.S. and the Middle East. The University of Texas. October 20, 2002.
· Prospects for the Anti-War Movement. Left Business Observer. October 17, 2002.
· On What Changed after September 11. University of Houston. October 18, 2002.
· On Iraq. Sveriges Radio. September 21, 2002.
· On Terror. This Is Hell. June 8, 2002.
· On the Role of Nuclear Weapons in U.S. Global Domination. Democracy Now. May 24, 2002.
· On the Long and Bloody History of U.S.-Sponsored Terrorism. Democracy Now. May 22, 2002.
· Emerging Framework of World Power. Northeastern University. April 23, 2002.
· Activism, Anarchism, and Power. Conversations with History. March 22, 2002.
· A Radical Perspective on U.S. Foreign Policy. Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley. March 22, 2002.
· Language and Mind Revisited: Language and the Rest of the World. Hitchcock Lectures. March 20, 2002.
· Language and Mind Revisited: The Biolinguistic Turn. Hitchcock Lectures. March 19, 2002.
· On the State of the World. On Point. March 6, 2002.
· On 9-11 and the "War on Terrorism". Focus 580. March 5, 2002.
· The Uses of Haiti. Student Pugwash Northeast Regional Conference. February 22, 2002.
· On Being Accused of Crimes Against the State Turkey. Democracy Now. February 14, 2002.
· On Pentagon's Public Relations Battle. Democracy Now. February 12, 2002.
· On Turkey to defend his local publisher. CBC. February 7, 2002.
· At World Social Forum in Brazil. Democracy Now. February 5, 2002.
· The Journalist from Mars. FAIR. January 23, 2002.
· Noam Chomsky Ushers in the New Year with Democracy Now! in Exile. Democracy Now. January 1, 2002.
· On the War Against Afghanistan and the Shape of The World Since 9-11. Democracy Now. December 17, 2001.
· On India, Pakistan and the Widening of the So-Called War On Terrorism. Democracy Now. December 4, 2001.
· On 9-11. This Is Hell. September 15, 2001.
· On Anthrax and Pentagon's New Bioweapons. Democracy Now. October 24, 2001.
· Sponsors of State Terror Enlist in the Fight Against Terrorism. Democracy Now. October 23, 2001.
· The New War Against Terror. Technology and Culture Forum (MIT). October 18, 2001.
· On Terrorism in Practice and in Propaganda. Democracy Now. September 21, 2001.
· On Various Issues. This Is Hell. September 1, 2001.
· Teach-in On the 25th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War. Democracy Now. August 17, 2001.
· On the Language of Death and the Rogue United States, with Robert Fisk. Democracy Now. August 7, 2001.
· Institutions vs. People: Will the Species Self-Destruct? Technology and Culture Forum (MIT). April 10, 2001.
· Is Bush Provoking a New Cold War? Democracy Now. April 5, 2001.
· Sovereignty, Democracy, Markets: Some Skeptical Ruminations. Brooklyn Law School. February 23, 2001.
· Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind [1]. Harvard Trade Union Program. January 16, 2001.
· Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind [2]. Harvard Trade Union Program. January 16, 2001.
· On Middle East Politics. Democracy Now. February 7, 2001.
· End of Millennium Conversation. Democracy Now. December 29, 2000.
· "The Current Crises in the Middle East: What Can We Do?" MIT. December 14, 2000.
· On the Repression of Democratic Movements, US Elections, and Future Prospects. GenderTalk. October 30, 2000.
· On the Middle East. Democracy Now. October 16, 2000.
· On the 2000 Election, with Jesse Jackson. Democracy Now. September 7, 2000.
· On the United Nations. Democracy Now. September 7, 2000.
· On State Terror and U.S. Foreign . Democracy Now. May 22, 2000.
· On Terrorism. Democracy Now. May 17, 2000.
· On Vietnam. Democracy Now. May 12, 2000.
· Teach-in On the 25th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War. Democracy Now. May 1, 2000.
· The Right of Return. Trans-Arab Research Institute. April 8, 2000.
· On Globalization. Democracy Now. February 3, 2000.
· IRC 20th Anniversary Celebration Speech. International Relations Center. February 2, 2000.
· Case Studies in Hypocrisy: U.S. Human Rights Policy [1]. AK Press Audio. 2000.
· Case Studies in Hypocrisy: U.S. Human Rights Policy [2]. AK Press Audio. 2000.
· Globalization and the New World Order. Democracy Now. October 21, 1999.
· On Why Americans Should Care About East Timor. Democracy Now. September 3, 1999.
· Kosovo, Serbia, NATO and the US. Radio Free Maine. June 4, 1999.
· Manufacturing Consent. People's Tribune Radio. June 1, 1999.
· On NATO Bombings of Yugoslavia, with Edward Said. Democracy Now. May 14, 1999.
· On Kosovo, Vietnam and Media Manipulation. Global Kitchen. April 19, 1999.
· On Kosovo, with Edward Said. Democracy Now. April 12, 1999.
· On the U.S. Policy in the Middle East, with Edward Said. Theater of Ideas. April 9, 1999.
· On Kosovo. Democracy Now. April 5, 1999.
· On the U.S. Policy in Iraq. Democracy Now. February 8, 1999.
· On the New World Order. Democracy Now. February 2, 1999.
· On the US Policy in the Middle East and the Role of the Media. CounterSpin. January 15 - 22, 1999.
· New World Order, A Changing Vision. University of Maryland. January 14, 1999.
· On Pinochet Case. Democracy Now. December 7, 1998.
· On the World Economy. Democracy Now. October 15, 1998.
· Undeterred: International Activism. Making Contact. September 23, 1998.
· On U.S. Bombings in Sudan. Democracy Now. August 25, 1998.
· Chomsky's Theory that Language Is Largely Innate and Not Learned. BBC. June 21, 1998.
· Corporations As Forms of Tyranny, the Control of Minds. BBC. June 21, 1998.
· The Self-Delusion of the Powerful and the Collusion of the Educated. BBC. June 21, 1998.
· Vietnam and the Rewriting of the History of the War. BBC. June 21, 1998.
· On Events in Indonesia. Democracy Now. May 22, 1998.
· On U.S. Economy. Democracy Now. May 14, 1998.
· Market Democracy: Doctrines and Reality. Democracy Now. May 7, 1998.
· Law, Morality and Politics in the Kosovo Conflict. Kosovo Radio. December 4, 1997.
· The Common Good. Making Contact. October 29, 1997.
· Is Capitalism Just? April 4, 1997.
· Rage Against the Machine Interviews Chomsky. Radio Free LA. January, 1997.
· On the Corporate State. 'Rights and Wrongs' series. 1997.
· Noam Chomsky. Progressive TV. 1997.
· Free Market Fantasies. AK Press Audio. April 13, 1996.
· Controlling the Public Mind. Hotel Vancouver. March 1, 1996.
· The Propaganda Model. Freespeech. 1996.
· East Timor. No Censorship Radio. November 4, 1995.
· Class War and the Attack on Working People. AK Press Audio. May 9, 1995.
· Interview with Shelagh Rogers. MorningSide. March 31, 1995.
· Capital Rules. AK Press Audio. December 9, 1995.
· Prospects for Democracy. AK Press Audio. January 1, 1994.
· Necessary Illusions. ROX. 1994.
· On Drugs. ROX. 1994.
· Chomsky 4. ROX. 1994.
· The Clinton Vision. AK Press Audio. Decenber 10, 1993.
· The New World Order: Latin America. 1992.
· Manufacturing Consent. 1992.
· Debate with Richard Perle [1]. The Ohio State University. 1988.
· Debate with Richard Perle [2]. The Ohio State University. 1988.
· Media as a Propaganda System [1]. Montclair State University. 1988.
· Media as a Propaganda System [2]. Montclair State University. 1988.
· Media as a Propaganda System [3]. Montclair State University. 1988.
· Media as a Propaganda System [4]. Montclair State University. 1988.
· The Lessons of Viet Nam. March 31, 1985.
· U.S. Foreign Policy in Central America [1]. University of California, Berkeley. May 14, 1984.
· U.S. Foreign Policy in Central America [2]. University of California, Berkeley. May 14, 1984.
· U.S. Middle East Policy and the American Peace Movement [1]. University of California, Berkeley. May 14, 1984.
· U.S. Middle East Policy and the American Peace Movement [2]. University of California, Berkeley. May 14, 1984.
· U.S. Middle East Policy and the American Peace Movement [3]. University of California, Berkeley. May 14, 1984.
· Government in the Future. Poetry Center, New York. February 16, 1970.

Hmmm.. This guy is BUSY! Wonder if there's anything else the government is trying to suppress about this guy. Let's see if he's got any published articles.

Hey! He's got some!

· Master Mind. With Shira Hadad. November 10, 2005.
· Social Change Today. With Steven Durel. November 7, 2005.
· Fight the Power. With Ian Rappel. July, 2005.
· On the Future of Democracy. With John P. Titlow. June, 2005.
· College. With Penn Jillette. May 30, 2005.
· State and Corp. With uncredited interviewer. May 18, 2005.
· Hidden Power. With John Malkin. April, 2005.
· Stokey Meets Chomsky. With Matthew Kennard. Spring 2005.
· Language, Politics, and Propaganda. With David Jay Brown. 2005.
· On Globalization, Iraq, and Middle East Studies. With Danilo Mandic. March 11, 2005.
· On the War in Iraq. With David McNeill. January 31, 2005.
· 'Controlling the Oil in Iraq Puts America in a Strong Position...'. With David McNeill. January 24, 2005.
· On What Matters. With Julia Goldberg. January 19, 2005.
· Civilization versus Barbarism? With M. Junaid Alam. December 17, 2004.
· The Life and Times of Noam Chomsky. With Amy Goodman. November 26, 2004.
· On the U.S. Election. With Bill Maher. November 5, 2004.
· On the State of the Nation, Iraq and the Election. With Amy Goodman. October 21, 2004.
· Money Determines U.S. President. With Mehr News Agency. October 11, 2004.
· Interview with Noam Chomsky. With Wallace Shawn. September 17, 2004.
· War Crimes and Imperial Fantasies. With David Barsamian. September-October, 2004.
· "The Savage Extreme of a Narrow Policy Spectrum". With Merlin Chowkwanyun. July 31, 2004.
· Anarchism Interview. With Ziga Vodovnik. July 14, 2004.
· Interview with Noam Chomsky. With Timo Stollenwerk. June 11, 2004.
· On Reagan's Legacy. With Amy Goodman. June 7, 2004.
· On American Imperialism and British Me Too-ism. With Jeremy Paxman. May 19, 2004.
· "When They Do It, It's a Crime. When We Do It, It's Not". With David Barsamian. May, 2004.
· On Iraq, Israel, and the US Elections. With Simon Mars. April 2, 2004.
· Justice for Palestine? With Stephen R. Shalom and Justin Podur. March 30, 2004.
· Does the U.S. Want Democracy? With The Toronto Star. March 23, 2004.
· On the Occupation of Iraq, the Trial of Saddam and the US Election. With Matthew Tempest. March 16, 2004.
· South Africa, Israel-Palestine, and the Contours of the Contemporary Global Order. With C. J. Lee. March 9, 2004.
· On Historical Amnesia, Foreign Policy, and Iraq. With Kirk W. Johnson. February 17, 2004.
· On Bush, the Left, Iraq, and Israel. With M. Junaid Alam. February 4, 2004.
· On the US and the Middle East. With Hawzheen O. Kareem. January 2, 2004.
· On Terrorism. With John Bolender. January, 2004.
· Hegemony or Survival. With Guerrilla News Network. December 17, 2003.
· Hegemony or Survival. With Evan Solomon. December 9, 2003.
· "Of Course, it Was All about Iraq's Resources". With Simon Mars. December 2, 2003.
· Question Time. With The Observer. November 30, 2003.
· On the Internet, the Middle East, and Democratic Elections. With Charlie Ros. November 20, 2003.
· On Hegemony or Survival. With Tavis Smiley. November 19, 2003.
· The Professorial Provocateur. With Deborah Solomon. November 2, 2003.
· Telling the Truth about Imperialism. With David Barsamian. November-December, 2003.
· Corporate Journalism. With Bernie Dwyer. October 28, 2003.
· On Israel, the US and Turkey. With Sabahattin Atas. Circa September, 2003.
· On the Post-Iraq World. With John Junkerman. July 22, 2003.
· Collateral Language. With David Barsamiam. July-August, 2003.
· What's Happening? With Atilio Borón. June 14, 2003.
· Does the USA Intend to Dominate the Whole World by Force? With Andy Clark. May 30, 2003.
· Imperial Ambition. With David Barsamian. May 16, 2003.
· On Iraq. With Michael Albert. April 13, 2003.
· Turkey and The US War On Iraq. Anonymous interviewer. April 3, 2003.
· Iraq is a Trial Run. With V. K. Ramachandran. March 21, 2003.
· Action, not Speculation. With Cynthia Peters. March 9, 2003.
· American Academic Criticizes US Policy on Iraq. With Lisa LaFlamme. February 14, 2003.
· The Iraq Debate. With Carlo Invernizzi. February 13, 2003.
· Noam Chomsky on the Anti War Movement. With Matthew Tempest. February 4, 2003.
· Torturing Demcoracy. With Faiz Ahmad. January 25, 2003.
· The Dominion and The Intellectuals With Antosofia. 2003.
· Chom'pin at the Bit. With Mark Thomas. December 28, 2002.
· Is Chomsky 'anti-American'? With Jacklyn Martin. December 9, 2002.
· On the Bush Administration. With Anthony DiMaggio. December 6, 2002.
· War on Iraq. With Omar Badawi & Faiz Ahmad. November 8, 2002.
· "It's Extremely Easy to Frighten People". With Michael King. October 18, 2002.
· U.S. Intervention from Afghanistan to Iraq. With David Barsamian. September–October, 2002.
· Will the US Attack Iraq? With Michael Albert. September 1, 2002.
· Cauca: Their Fate Lies in Our Hands. With Justin Podur. July 12, 2002.
· On the War Against Terrorism and Related Issues. With Dimitriadis Epaminondas. July 3, 2002.
· Challenges and Opportunities for Progressive Movements Post-911. With Chris Spannos. May 24, 2002.
· On Escalation of Violence in the Middle East. With Toni Gabric. May 7, 2002.
· On Democracy in Italy. With Domenico Pacitti. May, 2002.
· Hot Type on the Middle East. With Evan Solomon. April 16, 2002.
· On Israel/Palestine. With ZNet. April 2, 2002.
· Activism, Anarchism, and Power. With Harry Kreisler. March 22, 2002.
· Bush criticised for 'confused' Middle East goals. With Tony Jones. April 8, 2002.
· On 9-11. With Nicholas Holt. March 8, 2002.
· Hard Talk. With Tim Sebastian. February 27, 2002.
· On Pakistan. With Mashhood Rizvi. February 14, 2002.
· On the War on Drugs. With Week Online. February 8, 2002.
· The Campaign of Hatred Against Us. With Ticky Fullerton. January 26, 2002.
· On the War in Afghanistan. With Suzy Hansen. January 16, 2002.
· Preparatory to Porto Alegre. With various interviewers. January, 2002.
· On the War in Afghanistan. With Stephen R. Shalom. January, 2002.
· Extending U.S. Dominance By Any Means Possible. With Michael Albert. January, 2002.
· An Hour with Noam Chomsky. With Hugh Gusterson. 2002.
· On the War in Afghanistan. With Pervez Hoodbhoy. November 27, 2001.
· "There Is No Justification for the War in Afghanistan". WIth George Iype. November 24, 2001.
· Chomsky in First Person. With V. K. Ramachandran. November 15, 2001.
· Face to Face with a Polymath. Various interviewers. November, 2001.
· The United States is a Leading Terrorist State. With David Barsamian. November, 2001.
· On the Attacks on New York and Washington. With David Basamian. November, 2001.
· The Fifth Freedom. With Stephen Marshall. November, 2001.
· The New War Against Terror. With various questioners. October 18, 2001.
· Doing the Sensible Thing. With Peter Clarke. October 16, 2001.
· Effects of U.S. policy in the Middle East. With Greg Ruggerio. October 5, 2001.
· U.S. Foreign Policy and Relations with the Muslim World. With Will Femia. October 5, 2001.
· A Fortnight Later. With John Campbell. September 26, 2001.
· Composite Interview. Various interviewers. September 19, 2001.
· On 9-11. With Svetlana Vukovic & Svetlana Lukic. September 19, 2001.
· Composite Interview 2. Various interviewers. September 21, 2001.
· Composite Interview 3. Various interviewers. September 22, 2001.
· Composite Interview 4. Various interviewers. September, 2001.
· Composite Interview 5. Various interviewers. September, 2001.
· On Racism, Colombia, and the Militarization of Outer Space. With Yifat Susskind. August, 2001.
· Behind the Headlines on Colombia. With David Barsamian. May-June, 2001
· Intellectuals and the Responsibilities of Public Life. With Robert Borofsky. May 27, 2001.
· Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies. With David Barsamian. May, 2001.
· Rogue States Draw the Usual Line. With Christopher Gunness. May, 2001.
· Power and Powerlessness. With Mark Harris. April, 2001.
· On Israel, the US & Palestine. With Socialist Worjer. March, 2001.
· Public Education and Moral Monsters. With Philip G. Hill. January, 2001.
· Specter of an "Ugly Future". With Yitzhak Laor. December 29, 2000.
· On Corporate Media. Various interviewers. November 16, 2000.
· On the Repression of Democratic Movements, US Elections, and Future Prospects. With Nancy Nangeroni & Gordene O. MacKenzie. October 30, 2000.
· Things You'll Never Hear. With Ramin Jahanbegloo. June 14, 2000.
· Mass Media, Globalization, and the Public Mind. With Radio Ouverture. May, 2000.
· Globalising Resistance to Corporate Power. With Socialist Worker. May, 2000.
· Talking 'Anarchy' With Chomsky. With David Barsamian. April 5, 2000.
· On Various Topics. With Ben Isitt. March 22, 2000.
· Marginalizing the Masses. With Robert A. Schupp & Richard L. Ohlemacher. March 3, 2000.
· The Meaning of Seattle. With David Barsamian. February, 2000.
· On Institutional Violence. With Sparrow Goldman. Circa 2000.
· On Mind Modules, Meaning, and Wittgenstein. With Emilio Rivano. 2000.
· Reluctant Icon. With Tim Halle. Circa 1999.
· Catastrophe in Timor. With Bob Sudeyko. September 13, 1999.
· East Timor on the Brink. With David Barsamian. September 8, 1999.
· Eight Questions on Kibbituzim. With Nikos Raptis. August 24, 1999.
· The Truth About Kosovo. With Patrick Cain. June, 1999.
· On Kosovo. With Mary Lou Finlay. With April 16, 1999.
· On Kosovo. With Max Boehnel. April 8, 1999.
· Who Runs America? With Adrian Zupp. April 1-8, 1999.
· Stop U.S. Intervention. With Michael Lerner. April 5, 1999.
· Debt, Drugs and Democracy. With María Luisa Mendonca. March 12, 1999.
· On Freedom of Press and Culture. With Nikos raptis & Takis Fotopoulos. March, 1999.
· The Progressive Interview. With David Barsamian. February, 1999.
· "False, False, False and False." With Ray Suarez. January 20, 1999.
· On Iraq. With Frontline. January 2-15, 1999.
· Eleven Questions Re Iraq. With La Repubblica. December, 1998.
· On Humanism and Morality. With Tor Wennerberg. November, 1998.
· On Human Nature, Good and Evil. With Kate Soper. August, 1998.
· The Truth about Trade. With Nick Rosen. May 14, 1998.
· On Microsoft and Corporate Control of the Internet. With Anna Couey & Joshua Karliner. May 6, 1998.
· The Drug War Industrial Complex. With John Veit. April, 1998.
· On Iraq. Various interviewers. March 12, 1998.
· The Situation in Iraq. With Giampaolo Cadalanu. February, 1998.
· Achievements and Failures of the Last 20 Years. With South End Press. 1998.
· Fussed About Cuba. With Heinz Dieterich. 1985-1998.
· Israel in Global Context. With Ludwig Watzal. June 9, 1997.
· History is Not Over. With David Cogswell. April 18, 1997.
· Expanding the Floor of the Cage. With David Barsamian. April, 1997.
· Radical Democracy. With John Nichols. March 3, 1997.
· Noise. With Fred Branfman. February, 1997.
· On Anarchism. With Tom Lane. December, 1996.
· Colombia, the United States, Drugs, Terror, and Social Control. With Michael López et al. Fall, 1996.
· On Chomsky's Books. With Renato Pompeu. October 19, 1996.
· Changing the Way We Think about AIDS. With Huw Christie. September-October, 1996.
· On Democracy. With Tom Morello. Summer, 1996.
· We the People Radio Interview. With Jerry Brown. February 12, 1996.
· On US Military Budgets. With Ira Shorr. February 11, 1996.
· The Big Idea. With Andrew Marr. 1996.
· Silent Children, New Language. With anonymous interviewer. Fall 1996.
· The Standard Colonial Pattern. With Mouin Rabbani. October-December, 1995.
· On AOL. With Phil Gutis et al. October 30, 1995.
· Globalization and Resistance. With Husayn Al-Kurdi. Summer, 1995.
· Demystifying Democracy. With Pepi Leistyna and Stephen Sherblom. Summer, 1995.
· Robert McNamara. With David Barsamian. May 9, 1995.
· Anarchism, Marxism and Hope for the Future. With Kevin Doyle. May, 1995.
· Media Criticism. With Shelagh Rogers. March 21, 1995.
· Education is Ignorance. With David Barsamian. January 31, 1995.
· Manufacturing Dissent. With Peter Cronau. January, 1995.
· On the Net. With RosieX and Chris Mountford. 1995.
· On Violence and Youth. With Pepi Leistyna & Stephen Sherblom. Fall, 1994.
· The Golden Age Is in Us. With Alexander Cockburn. June 22, 1994/July 30, 1994.
· A Phone Call to Noam Chomsky. With Michael Slaughter. May 9, 1994.
· On NAFTA, the Media, Activism, the Internet, Haiti, Chiapas etc. With Jimmer Endres & Jon Slenk. March 9, 1994.
· On Linguistics and Politics. With Günther Grewendorf. 1994.
· On U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War era. October 25, 1993.
· On Reaching the Puclic. With David Cogswell. September 14, 1993.
· On Politics, Power and the Media Conformity. With Jerry Brown. August, 1993.
· 'Manufacturing Consent' Portrays Noam Chomsky's Ideas. With Pat Dowell et al. May 24, 1993.
· On the Responsibility of Intellectuals etc. With Michael Albert. January, 1993.
· America's Public Enemy #1. With London Student. March 11, 1993.
· If You Support Unjust Regimes, Expect Injustice! With Maxwell Steer. 1993.
· Anarchy in the U.S.A. With Charles M. Young. May 28, 1992.
· On Propaganda. With unidentified interviewer. January, 1992.
· Sixties Radical. With Ron Chepesiuk. 1992.
· Excerpts from Manufacturing Consent. Various interviewers. 1992.
· BBC Interview Transcript. With John Pilger. November 25, 1992.
· On Linguistics and Human Nature. Naomi Chase. April 8, 1992.
· Capitalism, Libertarian Party, Anarchism. Anonymous interviewers. February 14, 1992.
· An Unjust War. With V. K. Ramachandran. March 2-15, 1991.
· On Capitalism. With David Finkel. 1991.
· Language, Politics, and Composition. With Gary A. Olson and Lester Faigley. 1991.
· On the "New World Order" and the Origins of His Scepticism. With David Barsamian. September 17, 1990.
· The Gulf Crisis. With Robert MacNeil. September 11, 1990.
· Bewildering the Herd. With Rick Szykowny. September 7, 1990.
· The Radical Vocation. With Adam Jones. February 20, 1990.
· Remarks on Religion. Various interviewers. 1990-1999.
· On the Cold War, Economy, El Salvador, Israel. With David Barsamian. December 13, 1989.
· Facing Reality. With Michael C. Haley & Ronald F. Lunsford. December, 1989.
· 1492: The First Invasion of Globalization. With Heinz Dieterich. October 1989/March 1992.
· On the Media. With David Frum et al. November 28-December 2, 1988.
· Of Prussians and Traders. With Multinational Monitor. November, 1988.
· On Trip to Middle East. With Burton Levine. May, 1988.
· Meaningful Democracy. With Bill Moyers. 1988.
· What the World is Really Like: Who Knows It -- and Why. With James Peck. 1987.
· Personal Influences. With James Peck. 1987.
· Language, Language Development and Reading. With Lillian R. Putnam. Fall 1987.
· Israel, the Holocaust, and Anti-Semitism. With David Barsamian. October 24, 1986.
· On Language and Culture. With Wiktor Osiatynski. 1984.
· The Media as a Mirror of Society. With Brian Jacobs. October 21, 1984.
· Things No Amount of Learning Can Teach. With John Gliedman. November 1983.
· The Psychology of Language and Thought. With Robert W. Rieber. 1983.
· The Legacy of the Vietnam War. With Paul Shannon. October, 1982.
· The Treachery of the Intelligentsia: A French Travesty. Anonymous interviewer. October 26, 1981.
· U.S. Defense and Corporate Social Responsibility? Anonymous interviewer. April 8, 1981.
· An American View of the Ideological Confrontation of Our Time. Anonymous interviewer. February 3, 1980.
· On Human Rights and Ideology. With Jeff Sellars. October 13, 1979.
· Oil Imperialism and the US-Israel Relationship. With Roger Hurwitz, David Woolf & Sherman Teichman. March, 1977.
· On Psychology. With David Cohen. 1977.
· The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism. With Peter Jay. July 25, 1976.
· Triumphs of Democracy. With Mitsou Ronat. January, 1976.
· Anarchism. With David Dobereiner, John Hess, Doug Richardson & Tom Woodhull. January, 1974.
· One Man's View. Anonymous interviewer. May, 1973.
· The New Radicalism. Anonymous interviewer. Spring, 1971.

Gee whiz, for a guy suffering from freedom of expression, he must have diarrhea of the mouth or something. Does he ever get out and do any speaking, or do the black helicopters machine-gun him down when he does that?

Spoke too soon. Looks like he's speaking just fine. We have a link titled, "Talks"

· The Future of Iraq and U.S. Occupation. International Relations Center. January 26, 2005.
· Nuclear Terror at Home. International Relations Center. January 25, 2005.
· Elections Run by Same Guys Who Sell Toothpaste. International Relations Center. January 25, 2005.
· The "War on Terrorism" and the New Rules of World Order. Antigonish, Nova Scotia. October 13, 2004.
· Doctrines and Visions: Who Is to Run The World, and How? University of Oxford. June 4, 2004.
· Biolinguistics and the Human Capacity. MTA, Budapest. May 17, 2004.
· On Negroponte's Appointment to Iraq Embassy. Cambridge Forum. April 29, 2004.
· After the War. Columbia University. November 20, 2003.
· On Hegemony or Survival. Illinois State University. October 7, 2003.
· Confronting the Empire. III World Social Forum. February 1, 2003.
· On the Kent/Jackson State Killings. Kent State. May 4, 2000.
· On West Asia. University of California at Berkeley. March 21, 2002.
· A World Without War. II World Social Forum. January 31, 2002.
· Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror. Harvard University. February, 2002.
· Peering into the Abyss of the Future. Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. November 3, 2001.
· The New War Against Terror. MIT. October 18, 2001.
· Prospects for Peace in the Middle East. University of Toledo. March 4, 2001.
· "The current crises in the Middle East: What can we do?" MIT. December 14, 2000.
· IRC 20th Anniversary Celebration Speech. International Relations Center. February 26, 2000.
· Humanitarianism and Human Rights. New York Institute for the Humanities. February 2, 2000.
· "Sovereignty and World Order". Kansas State University. September 20, 1999.
· U.S. Middle East Policy. Columbia University. April 4, 1999.
· Whose World Order. University of Calgary. September 22, 1998.
· Power in The Global Arena. Amiel Lecture, London. May, 1998.
· Ending 20 Years of Occupation. Columbia University. December 9, 1995.
· End the Atrocity in East Timor. Australia. March 22, 1995.
· 21st Century: Democracy or Absolutism. University of Illinois. October 17, 1994.
· Democracy and Education. Loyola University. October 19, 1994.
· Old Wine, New Bottles. University of Virginia. February 10, 1993.
· Media Control. MIT. March 17, 1991.
· The New World Order. University of California at Berkeley. March 16, 1991.
· If the Nuremberg laws were applied... Radio Free Maine. Circa 1990.
· American Foreign Policy. Harvard University. March 19, 1985.

I'll bet a guy like this can really argue.

Yep! He's got a section devoted to "Debates"

· Hegemony or Survival. With Washington Post readers. November 26, 2003.
· On The Verge Of War. With Tariq Ali, Gilbert Achcar, and Isin Elicin. December 19, 2002.
· On Current Affairs. With Oe Kenzaburo. Spring 2002.
· On 9-11. With Bill Bennett. May 30, 2002.
· On Why Various Countries Hate the US. With Robert Siegel. October 12, 2001.
· Globalization and its Discontents. With Washington Post readers. May 16, 2000.
· Power Politics? With James Woolsey. March 12, 1998.
· On Dissidence. With Stefan Kubiak.
· On U.S. Intervention in Latin America. With John Silber.
· Human Nature: Justice versus Power With Michel Foucault. 1971.
· A Frustrating Task. With Samuel P. Huntington. February 26, 1970.
· The Ethics of Intervention. With Stanley Hoffmann. March 27, 1969.
· An Exchange On Liberal Scholarship. With Richard M. Pfeffer et al. February 13, 1969.
· An Exchange On Resistance. With Chad Walsh and William X. February 1, 1968.
· The Legitimacy of Violence as a Political Act? With Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag, et al. December 15, 1967.
· On The Responsibility of Intellectuals. With Fryar Calhoun et al. April 20, 1967.
· What Shall the Responsible Intellectual Do? With George Steiner. March 23, 1967.

Maybe this lack of freedom of expression he's talking about has to do with the fact that his supporters are suppressed.

Or, perhaps not.

· Smearing Chomsky -- The Guardian in the Gutter. By David Edwards and David Cromwell. November 4, 2005.
· The Greatest Intellectual? By Emma Brockes. October 31, 2005.
· For Chomsky. By Robin Blackburn. November, 2005.
· Against Chomsky. By Oliver Kamm. November, 2005.
· Terror Is Not a High Priority in the World. By Seif-Eldeine Och. September 30, 2005.
· The Wild Man in the Wings. By Clinton Fernandes. Spring 2005.
· It's Time to Take Back our Lives. By Jerry Large. April 21, 2005.
· Is Noam Chomsky an 'Intellectual Moron'? By Michael K. Smith. March 22, 2005.
· Noam Chomsky... Still Furious at 76. By Alan Taylor. March 20, 2005.
· Chomsky Webcast to Net Extra Viewers. By Gareth Edwards. March 19, 2005.
· Between Chomsky and Cheney. By Michelle Chang. March, 2005.
· Chomsky and Conscription. By Jacob Levich. February 4, 2005.
· Why Do Historians Ignore Noam Chomsky? By John H. Summers. January 17, 2005.
· The Anti-Chomsky Reader Continues a Soviet-Style Assault. By Michael Leon. January 13, 2005.
· A Question of Intent: The Chomsky Interviews. By Reza Fiyouzat. January, 2005.
· Introduction. By James McGilvray. Cambridge, 2005.
· The Meta-Chomsky Debate. By Josh Buermann. ca. 2005.
· The Hollow Khmer-Chomsky. By Josh Buermann. ca. 2005.
· Sue Him, Noam! By Jordy Cummings. November 10, 2004.
· Sullivan Slanders and Slinks Away. By Michael Leon. November 8, 2004.
· Chomsky, Zinn, Nader & the Quadrennial Farce. By Michael K. Smith. October 28, 2004.
· Noam Chomsky and ‘Left’ Apologetics for Injustice in Palestine. By Noah Cohen. August 23, 2004.
· Who's Afraid of Noam Chomsky? By Richard Wall. August 17, 2004.
· Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn Plan to Vote for Ralph Nader. By Greg Bates. June 25, 2004.
· Talking Back to Chomsky. By Cynthia Peters. April 27, 2004.
· Chomsky's Right, Bush Has to Go. By Michael Leon. March 23, 2004.
· Chomsky's Lesser-Evilism. By Phil Gasper. March 20, 2004.
· Planet Chomsky in the Times. By Michael Leon. January 7, 2004.
· The Propaganda Model: A Retrospective. By Edward S. Herman. Decenber 9, 2003.
· The Double Life of Noam Chomsky. By Liesbeth Koenen. Decenber 6, 2003.
· His Green, Colorful Ideas Awaken Furiously. By Craig Morris. Decenber 3, 2003.
· Cranky Yankees versus Noam Chomsky. By Walter Lippmann. October 30, 2003.
· Does Noam Chomsky Hate America? By Anthony Gancarski. October 24, 2003.
· On Chomsky's Influence. By Steven Pinker. September 25, 2003.
· The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky. By Arundhati Roy. August 24, 2003.
· Refuting Brad Delong's Smear Job on Chomsky. By Edward S. Herman. July 26, 2003.
· 12 Great Thinkers of Our Time. By Neil Clark. July 14, 2003.
· Chomsky on the Mind-Body Problem. By William G. Lycan. April 1, 2003.
· In Defense of Public Language. By Ruth Garrett Millikan. April 1, 2003.
· Finding the Common Thread in the Chomsky-Foucault Debate. By Brian Lightbody. Spring, 2003.
· Eight Ways to Smear Noam Chomsky. By Lawrence McGuire. October 9, 2002.
· Noam Chomsky and His Critics. By Louis Proyect. August 15, 2002.
· A Critical Review and Assessment of Herman and Chomsky's 'Propaganda Model'. By Jeffery Klaehn. 2002.
· The Propaganda Model: An Overview. By David Cromwell. 2002.
· Operation Mindcrime: The Selling of Noam Chomsky. By Alex Burns. November 15, 2001.
· Speech! By Samuel Hughes. July-August, 2001.
· The Way They Were (and Are). By Samuel Hughes. July-August, 2001.
· Conscience of a Nation. By Maya Jaggi. January 20, 2001.
· Truth to Tell. By Domenico Pacitti. April 18, 2000.
· Chomsky's Other Revolution. By Steven Robert Allen. February 21, 2000.
· Two Cheers for Chomskyism. By Julian Sanchez. ca. 2000.
· Noam Chomsky and the Struggle Against Neoliberalism. By Robert W. McChesney. April 1, 1999.
· Noam Chomsky and the Law. By Robert Barsky. 1999.
· Chomsky's Libertarian Socialism. By Alison Edgley. 1999.
· Messages for Noam Chomsky on his 70th Birthday. December 7, 1998.
· Chomsky Celebration Essays. December 7, 1998.
· Chomsky on Media, Politics, Action. By Aaron Stark. December, 1998.
· Chomsky on Language. By Aaron Stark. December, 1998.
· Free Markets, Trapped People. By Anthony Hubbard. October 25, 1998.
· Scholar Offers Hope that Financial Turmoil Can Be Fixed. By Robert Brag. September 26, 1998.
· Where Egos Dare. By David Edwards. 1998.
· A Life of Dissent. By Robert Barsky. 1997.
· The Propaganda Model Revisited. By Edward S. Herman. July, 1996.
· Chomsky's Challenge: The Pertinence of Bakhtin's Theories. By Robert Barsky. Circa 1996.
· Divided Legacy. By Anthony Flint. November 19, 1995.
· The Voice of Dissidence. By Christian Tyler. July 8, 1995.
· Common Sense: Golden Goose or Propaganda? By Tom Jennings. 1995.
· A Chomskian Approach to Refugee Studies. By Robert Barsky. Circa 1995.
· American Dissident. By Paul Anderson & Kevin Davey. June 3, 1994.
· How Language Works [1]. By Steven Pinker. 1994.
· How Language Works [2]. By Steven Pinker. 1994.
· Literary Knowledge: Noam Chomsky and Marc Angenot. By Robert Barsky. Circa 1993.
· Knowledge, Morality and Hope. By Joshua Cohen & Joel Rogers. May/June 1991.
· The Political Economy of the Mass Media. Interview with Edward S. Herman. January, 1989.
· The Unbridled Linguist. By Kathleen Hendrix. February 1, 1988.
· The Chorus and Cassandra. By Christopher Hitchens. Autumn 1985.
· The Pariah. By Nat Hentoff. June 22, 1985.
· What Is Innate and Why. By Hilary Putnam. 1980.
· Reply to Chomsky's Comments. By Hilary Putnam. 1980.
· Chomsky's Revolution in Linguistics. By John R. Searle. June 29, 1972.

I'll bet a guy like this writes a lot of letters.

· Open Letter to The Guardian. ZNet. November 13, 2005.
· Endorsement. Statement on Week of Campus Resistance. March 2005.
· Looking Back, Looking Forward. The Nation. December 2, 2004.
· Advocacy and Realism. ZNet. August 26, 2004.
· How to Get Out of Iraq. The Nation. May 6, 2004.
· On Vietnam. Boston Review. December, 2003/January, 2004.
· On War. ZNet. March 31, 2003.
· Response to David Cortright. ZNet. September 12, 2002.
· Questions on Israel. ZNet. June 30, 2002.
· About East Timor. ZNet. May 20, 2002.
· On Starving in Afghanistan and on Media Filtering. ZNet. February 19, 2002.
· Response to Leo Casey. ZNet. October, 2001.
· Reply to Christopher Hitchens. ZNet. September, 2001.
· Hegemony or Survival. ZNet. July 3, 2001.
· Propaganda and Indoctrination. ZNet. December 10, 2000.
· On Milosevic Ouster, etc. ZNet. October, 2000.
· Summits. ZNet. September 17, 2000.
· "Peace Process" Prospects. ZNet. July 27, 2000.
· National Missile Defense System. The American Prospect. July 18, 2000.
· Humanitarian Intervention. ZNet. July 5, 2000.
· Credibility. ZNet. June 16, 2000.
· Unsustainable Non Development. ZNet. May 30, 2000.
· Assaulting Solidarity -- Privatizing Education. ZNet. May 12, 2000.
· Colombia. ZNet. April 24/25, 2000.
· On Graduate Unions, God, Famines, and Israel/Syria Negotiations. ZNet. Jan 19, 2000.
· Millennial Visions and Selective Vision. ZNet. January 10, 2000.
· East Timor Is Not Yesterday's Story. October 23, 1999.
· Moral Principles and International Law. ZNet. May 9, 1999.
· "A farewell to Oskar". ZNet. March 17, 1999.
· On Staying Informed and Intellectual Self-Defense. ZNet. March 8, 1999.
· A Call to Action on Sanctions and the U.S. War Against the People of Iraq. January 8, 1999.
· On Iraq Bombing. ZNet. December, 1998.
· On the Iraq Bombing and Subsequent Issues. ZNet. December, 1998.
· On the Clinton Scandal. ZNet. September, 1998 / April, 1999.
· A selection of Chomsky's posts from the ChomskyChat Forum. ZNet. December, 1997.
· On Anarchism. ZNet. December 23, 1996.
· On the Kosovo Crisis . ZNet. Circa 1996.
· On Arab Countries' Attitudes toward Jews, Israel. ZNet. Circa 1996.
· On the Asian Crisis. ZNet. Circa 1996.
· On Cambodia, Pol Pot, etc. ZNet. Circa 1996.
· On Domestic Violence in the U.S. ZNet. Circa 1996.
· On Middle East Peace Process. ZNet. Circa 1996.
· On Responsibility of Individuals and Institutions. ZNet. Circa 1996.
· Some More ChomskyChat Forum Posts -- 1. ZNet. Circa 1996.
· Additional ChomskyChat Forum Posts -- 2 . ZNet. Circa 1996.
· A Typical Week of Chomsky Replies. ZNet. Circa 1996.
· Another Typical Week Chomsky Replies. ZNet. Circa 1996.
· Language and Evolution. The New York Review of Books. February 1, 1996.
· On Postmodernism. 1995.
· A Few Words on Independence Day. 1995.
· Industry vs. Labor. Lies of Our Times. June 14, 1994.
· On Pranks, Surrealism, Psychedelics and the "Deeply Personal". Diet Soap. June, 1994.
· Some Truths and Myths About Free Market Rhetoric. Lies of Our Times. January 7, 1994.
· Human Rights and the United States. Lies of Our Times. June 18, 1993.
· El Salvador. Lies of Our Times. January 1991.
· Murdering History. Lies of Our Times. September 1992.
· The Propaganda System. Lies of Our Times. April 6, 1992.
· Historical Revisionism. March 31, 1992.
· Universal Grammar. The New York Review of Books. December 19, 1991.
· Libya. Lies of Our Times. December 8, 1991.
· The Soviet Coup. Lies of Our Times. September 8, 1991.
· The Gulf Embargo. Lies of Our Times. August 12, 1991.
· Ideology. Lies of Our Times. October 7, 1991.
· Post-Gulf Peace. Lies of Our Times. April 12, 1991.
· On Vaclav Havel Speech. To Alexander Cockburn. March 1, 1990.
· The Faurisson Affair. To Lawrence Kolodney. Circa 1989-1991.
· Reply to Werner Cohn. Outlook. June 1, 1989.
· Crackdown in Prague. The New York Review of Books. April 13, 1989.
· Truth and Consequences. To Carolyn Eisenberg. Spring 1989.
· Against Loans to Chile. The New York Review of Books. June 11, 1987.
· Freedom & Peace & Prison. The New York Review of Books. May 29, 1986.
· Free Speech in a Democracy. The Daily Camera. September, 1985.
· "The Reasons for My Concern". Letter to Celia Jakubowicz. June 13, 1983.
· Free Boguslawsky. The New York Review of Books. July 15, 1982.
· Facing Deportation. The New York Review of Books. April 1, 1982.
· The Case of Joesoeff Ishak. The New York Review of Books. February 18, 1982.
· The Case of Prof. Stastny. The New York Review of Books. October 8, 1981.
· Repression in Latin America. The New York Review of Books. February 19, 1981.
· The Cynical Farce about Cambodia. Dissent. June 26, 1978.
· Human Rights for Everybody. The New York Review of Books. January 26, 1978.
· Words for the Shah. The New York Review of Books. November 24, 1977.
· The Right to Help. The New York Review of Books. August 4, 1977.
· let Him Go. The New York Review of Books. May 12, 1977.
· Protest from Israel. The New York Review of Books. March 17, 1977.
· The "Excelsior" Affair. The New York Review of Books. August 5, 1976.
· From Husak's Castle. The New York Review of Books. December 11, 1975.
· An Exchange on the Jewish State. The New York Review of Books. July 17, 1975.
· Plight of the Kurds. The New York Review of Books. May 29, 1975.
· Russell Foundation in Trouble. The New York Review of Books. February 20, 1975.
· Letter to Tito. The New York Review of Books. February 6, 1975.
· Victims. The New York Review of Books. January 23, 1975.
· Victims. The New York Review of Books. November 28, 1974.
· American Dissent in Moscow. The New York Review of Books. December 13, 1973.
· Two Statements on the Mid-East War. The New York Review of Books. November 15, 1973.
· Nobel Peace Prize. The New York Review of Books. October 4, 1973.
· Chomsky Replies. The New York Review of Books. July 19, 1973.
· Appeal for Peace in Middle East. The New York Review of Books. June 14, 1973.
· Medical Aid for Indochina. The New York Review of Books. November 30, 1972.
· The Case of Giyora Neuman. The New York Review of Books. July 20, 1972.
· Vietnam Calendar. The New York Review of Books. May 18, 1972.
· Medical Aid for Indochina. The New York Review of Books. April 20, 1972.
· Recognize Cuba. The New York Review of Books. March 23, 1972.
· The Covered Wagon. The New York Review of Books. December 30, 1971.
· Russell Memorial Symposium. The New York Review of Books. December 30, 1971.
· Danbury Prison Strike. The New York Review of Books. September 2, 1971.
· Spanish Outrage. The New York Review of Books. July 22, 1971.
· Fraser-Borgmann Defense. The New York Review of Books. February 25, 1971.
· The Conscience of Yugoslavia. The New York Review of Books. January 7, 1971.
· Alfred's Fiasco. The New York Review of Books. November 19, 1970.
· Senator Goodell. The New York Review of Books. October 22, 1970.
· In Response to Cambodia. The New York Review of Books. June 18, 1970.
· The Mandel Case. The New York Review of Books. November 20, 1969.
· A Reply to Joseph Alsop. The New York Review of Books. August 21, 1969.
· The Committee to Defend the Conspiracy. The New York Review of Books. June 19, 1969.
· Reforming the MLA. The New York Review of Books. December 19, 1968.
· Protest. The New York Review of Books. March 14, 1968.
· Fiedler Defense Fund. The New York Review of Books. October 12, 1967.

Isn't the Internet wonderful! All of those references -- with links to the actual source material!

And last but not least, we even have a link to Chomsky's new book, published just last month!

I guess Mr. Chomsky is so concerned about his lack of freedom of expression, that he's suffered academically, been removed from his tenured post, and left the country.

Hey! Look at that. Nope, he's still on the MIT faculty, with an office (bugged, no doubt) right there in Cambridge. With a phone (tapped, we're sure) and an email address (with a filter in place at the MIT router, of course). What a relief.

Mailing Address:

<address, phone, contact info deleted, in accord with CM TOS -- but it's there for all the world to see>


You want to talk Freedom of Expression and Chomsky? Press him on why he talked the Guardian into removing the text of his interview with Emma Brockes.

Boy, you know, with all this, for someone who's routinely suffering lack of freedom of expression, I really have to wonder what it is exactly that this bloviating gasbag has left to say.

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/18/2005 9:55:28 AM   
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Ok, it is just the lethargy, lassitude and sleeply self-interest that aggravates me. I was appalled at how uninformed and blasé the Americans I met when I first went to the US were. There is quite a deal of anti-American feeling here because your Govt is perceived to be arrogant, unilateral, and dictatorial. Of course, it is all those things plus having an avaricious foreign policy but most Kiwis can drawn the distinction between Foreign Policy and the People. However, most long for a constructive rather than destructive approach to world affairs from the Pentagon that has not been there since at least Kennedy or before.

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Chomsky - 11/18/2005 10:01:40 AM   
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There is a clear difference from publishing material and being able to speak at conferences, lectures and so forth. The following bibiography you recited would be read by a compoaratively small group of scholars and enthusiasts, myself among them.

However, ring Noam up and ask him when the last time he obtained funding for a conference, or was given access to Congressional documents....I think you'll find a history of obstruction, stymying and 'soft' suppression activities. Any academic will tell you that books are one thing, but getting out and about and disseminating these ideas with large groups of people is the key thing....

If there is freedom of expression, why is there a lack of a critical dissenting voice in the US ?

Btw, out of curiosity, how many of Chomsky's books have you read ?

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/18/2005 10:27:03 AM   
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Ok, it is just the lethargy, lassitude and sleeply self-interest that aggravates me. I was appalled at how uninformed and blasé the Americans I met when I first went to the US were. There is quite a deal of anti-American feeling here because your Govt is perceived to be arrogant, unilateral, and dictatorial. Of course, it is all those things plus having an avaricious foreign policy but most Kiwis can drawn the distinction between Foreign Policy and the People. However, most long for a constructive rather than destructive approach to world affairs from the Pentagon that has not been there since at least Kennedy or before.


You're right on the mark here, Jacques. Americans, like most large and aribitrarily defined groups are lethargic; maybe apathetic is a better word. It's not like we're a bunch of useless turds floating in a toilet bowl. We just look that way because we need to be led in a good direction. We are actually pretty damn cool people who can be led into doing good or evil. The need for leadership is not unique to us. It is a characteristic of any group of humans sufficiently large to require characteriziation by demographics. Right now, we are led by people who appeal to our baser desires: buy, consume, impress others with material possessions, fight, assert our strength.....then treat yourself to some beer, NASCAR, and wrestling. We have even been duped into believing that we need to hand over freedoms in order to be "safe from terror". It is kind of Orwellian.

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/18/2005 11:43:48 AM   
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yes, but that has always been the dichotomy the personable private and the deplorable public.

I just see an impasse. As repugnant as Republicans are, the Democrats seem only slighter better....

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/18/2005 3:07:34 PM   
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We have even been duped into believing that we need to hand over freedoms in order to be "safe from terror". It is kind of Orwellian.


I read your post with interest. But I think you gloss over it too easily.

Most Americans are SHOCKINGLY ignorant of even the simplest political concepts, and to make matters worse - and like our "Prez" George Bush Jr. - they aren't even intellectually curious to learn more about what they don't know.

I will provide two examples of what I mean:
1. Most Americans haven't a clue as to competing political philosophies. If you say "communism" or "socialism" you get a knee-jerk response devoid of factual knowledge on those political philosophies. Most Americans remain blissfully unaware of the fact that the U.S. has many socialist inspired programs just as do most western countries. If you actually list the policies of "The Communist Manifesto" you will readily discover that the U.S. government currently practices some variation of most of those very policies!
2. Two kinds of taxes are allowed under the U.S. Constitution: direct and indirect. What is the Federal income tax, direct or indirect - and how do you know?

John is absolutely correct. If they tell you that 2+2=5 or maybe even 3, most Americans will accept that and wave their flags in some insane show of pride and presumed superiority. Sadly, most Americans are political jack-asses. And that's how I explain our system of government and the current war - that when it comes to Americans you can fool most of them most of the time and they will thank you for it too.

I'm done.

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/18/2005 3:18:16 PM   
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I agree, and eloquently argued. but where does that leave us in the rest of the world who are so much influenced by the clods and hawks in the White House ?

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/18/2005 4:26:44 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Chaingang

quote:

ORIGINAL: DesertRat
We have even been duped into believing that we need to hand over freedoms in order to be "safe from terror". It is kind of Orwellian.


I read your post with interest. But I think you gloss over it too easily.

Most Americans are SHOCKINGLY ignorant of even the simplest political concepts, and to make matters worse - and like our "Prez" George Bush Jr. - they aren't even intellectually curious to learn more about what they don't know.

I will provide two examples of what I mean:
1. Most Americans haven't a clue as to competing political philosophies. If you say "communism" or "socialism" you get a knee-jerk response devoid of factual knowledge on those political philosophies. Most Americans remain blissfully unaware of the fact that the U.S. has many socialist inspired programs just as do most western countries. If you actually list the policies of "The Communist Manifesto" you will readily discover that the U.S. government currently practices some variation of most of those very policies!
2. Two kinds of taxes are allowed under the U.S. Constitution: direct and indirect. What is the Federal income tax, direct or indirect - and how do you know?

John is absolutely correct. If they tell you that 2+2=5 or maybe even 3, most Americans will accept that and wave their flags in some insane show of pride and presumed superiority. Sadly, most Americans are political jack-asses. And that's how I explain our system of government and the current war - that when it comes to Americans you can fool most of them most of the time and they will thank you for it too.

I'm done.



Yes, you are right. I do think about things in depth and am indeed knowlegeable about socialism, communism, and political theory in general, but I don't expound at great length here in this forum. When it comes to debating, I am a bit of a lightweight. I do agree with you about the degree of ignorance of most Americans. The fact that we have a very large population that is only shallowly aware of political issues is, in my view, the reason our electoral process is so susceptible to emotional appeals crafted by advertising specialists. It's all about marketing, it seems.

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/18/2005 5:31:24 PM   
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Well, I've staved it off long enough. It's time for me to start talking in gibberish to myself, scrawling political nonsense on the walls of coffeehouses, and randomly screaming and running away from people. I've officially gone crazy. If you need me, I'll be drooling on myself in the corner.

Seriously, though, what else could we expect from our beloved government besides less-than-subtle hypocrisy?

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/18/2005 8:29:12 PM   
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I agree, Naked. May I call you that? The thing is, I really really want to like my country....love it, maybe even. It's getting really hard for me to do that now. Are we going to be a country that practices torture with a citizenry that actually condones it?

Why are you going crazy, anyway? Because you quit smoking? Or is it the full moon? Livin' in the USA? All of the above?

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/18/2005 8:36:28 PM   
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quote:

I really really want to like my country....love it, maybe even. It's getting really hard for me to do that now.

You can still love your country while having contempt for some elected officials (sorry, they're really not worth calling "leaders"). So the torture issue is just one more stupid idea that will end up on the trash heap and only serves to discredit them even more so they'll accomplish nothing of substance in the rest of their administration to add to the less than nothing they've accomplished thus far.

By the way, pollux, that was one ridiculously long post. Dunno if you really had a point, but behaviour like that makes me think the point is on the top of your head.

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/18/2005 8:46:48 PM   
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I hope you are right. I think they have accomplished a lot. Nothing good, unfortunately, but they have managed to effect a lot of changes. Tax cuts for the rich, huge deficits, making life harder for the disadvantaged, and gutting environmental laws, to name a few. Oh, and alienating the rest of the world. That's a biggie.

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/18/2005 10:44:52 PM   
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Don't get me wrong, I love living in the US. I simply don't expect too much from our government, especially recently.

quote:

Why are you going crazy, anyway? Because you quit smoking? Or is it the full moon? Livin' in the USA? All of the above?


Nah, it's just that meaningless persecution of consensual BDSM relationships by the US government hurts my brain. It hurts even worse when I realize that same government is holding a big sign that says "Prisoners: If we had our way, we'd gag them and give them thumbscrews!" That's about the point when my head explodes.

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/18/2005 11:37:34 PM   
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I hate it when my head explodes.

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/19/2005 6:32:45 AM   
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By the way, pollux, that was one ridiculously long post. Dunno if you really had a point


Yeah, I had a point, which was that given you can easily read/see/hear everything Chomsky's emitted in the last 30 years except his farts, it's kinda hard to take these claims of "Help! Help! Chomsky's being repressed!" seriously. Sorry you missed it.

In other news, scrollbars are your friend.

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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/19/2005 8:48:25 AM   
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In e-mail today, he even made a movie, did it do any good? No, so what now? Yes, Michael Moore has a mailing list you can be on too. I'll paste the links below.



11/19/05

Dear Mr. Bush:

I would like to extend my hand and invite you to join us, the mainstream American majority. We, the people -- that's the majority of the people -- share these majority opinions:

1. Going to war was a mistake -- a big mistake. (link)

2. You and your administration misled us into this war. (link)

3. We want the war ended and our troops brought home. (link)

4. We don't trust you. (link)

Now, I know this is a bitter pill to swallow. Iraq was going to be your great legacy. Now, it's just your legacy. It didn't have to end up this way.

This week, when Republicans and conservative Democrats started jumping ship, you lashed out at them. You thought the most damning thing you could say to them was that they were "endorsing the policy positions of Michael Moore and the extreme liberal wing of the Democratic party." I mean, is that the best you can do to persuade them to stick with you -- compare them to me? You gotta come up with a better villain. For heaven's sakes, you had a hundred-plus million other Americans who think the same way I do -- and you could have picked on any one of them!

But hey, why not cut out the name-calling and the smearing and just do the obvious thing: Come join the majority! Be one of us, your fellow Americans! Is it really that hard? Is there really any other choice? George, take a walk on the wild side!

Your loyal representative from the majority,

Michael Moore
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1.http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4924#mistake

2.http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4924#misled

3.http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4924#bringemhome

4.http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4924#trust




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RE: Interesting political dichotomy - 11/19/2005 9:07:06 AM   
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Please everybody, return to fundamental and atomic principles. Mr. Bush and the republicans are about god and country...those that oppose this are obviouslv against god and country.

When you torture everyone who you can get your hands on that opposes you without discrimination, this is for god and country.

When you torture a person for mutual enjoyment it is degrading to god and country.

Remember that the overwhelming reasons this asshole was re-elected is because we needed to carry on the fight against terrorism, something that never occurred in the first place.

And for all other catch-alls the fact that he seemed to be a deeply religious man with deep convictions.

Yet the biggest gripe was that Kerry would dump the war.

I have said before, I had a friend Dave.....tipped over, had a friend, Tom.....tipped over, I had a friend............

Just once I wish it would be worth it.

If you are gonna kill terrorists, slaughter the fuckwads, fuck world opionion......but be sure what a terrorist is.

As is general agreement, Americans by and large suffer terrible Attention Deficit Disorder when it comes to the world stage, we think in terms of 4 years not world timelines. Therefore, our policy and opinions and actions for the most part should be shunned by the FREE world.

We have never gotten it right, ever.

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