Blah, blah, blah, U.S. Hegemony, Blah, blah, blah,
Israeli terrorism,blah, blah,blah, etc.
Noam Chomsky Interred ........ would be better.
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Yea, thats why he won re-election with 49 states, and out of mercy, didn't try for 50.
And why his coat tails were able to carry Bush sr to the white house, and his mere affiliation is able to get republicans elected.
Nothing but a self-loather.
I'm not calling you an asshole, Mr. Chomsky, though you certainly engage in rhetoric of a kind that one would call "asshole-ism".
Yawnnnnnn...blah, blah, blah...America may hate me, but I'll still do PBS pledge drives.
This language expert uses a great many words to basically admit "Yeah, I said that."
wordy!
questions to prof. chomsky:
are you implying that saddam and the former bush admin. were allies?
do you think the welfare and lives of people in oil-rich countries come before the economic welfare of the united states?
are you implying that saddam and al qaeda were NOT allies?
are you implying that the heightened security alerts last year were politically motivated?
very strange man..
Nothing against you, F14, but it's too long and Chomsky is too boring. I have a sense that there might be better ways to spend my time!
chomsky's been reading too much ward churchill.
The incumbents have great advantages, primarily overwhelming financial resources, thanks to the gifts they have showered on the wealthy and powerful. They also have the ability to conjure up threats to frighten the population, with the support of the loyal media. And other advantages as well. However, they face serious problems. Their domestic programs are highly unpopular. That is not surprising. The programs are designed to create what economists call a "fiscal train wreck," by vast increases in government spending (benefiting largely the wealthy, often under the pretext of "defense") and sharp tax cuts primarily for the very rich.
Vast unpayable bills, they assume, will enable them to "starve the beast," to borrow the rhetoric of their first tenure in power during the Reagan years; the present incumbents are largely drawn from the more reactionary jingoist sectors of the Reagan and Bush Senior administrations. Their phrase "starve the beast" refers to the openly-declared intention to undermine government services that benefit the general population: the limited health care programs that exist, social security, schools, etc.
But these policies are, naturally, opposed by the general population, just as they were during the Reagan years; Reagan ended up being the most unpopular living president, ranking alongside of Nixon. There is only one known way to hold political power under such circumstances: press the panic button. And at least in the short term, it often works, as many other unscrupulous leaders have understood throughout history. During the Reagan years, the population was regularly frightened by a series of concocted demons: Libyan hit-men wandering the streets of Washington, trying to assassinate the bold cowboy leader barricaded in the White House; an air base in Grenada that the Russians could use to bomb us (if they could find it on the map); the grave threat of the Nicaraguans only "two-days driving time" from Texas; black rapists in the streets; hispanic narcotraffickers; and on, and on. The same measures are adopted today.
The vast propaganda campaign initiated in September 2002 succeeded quickly in convincing Americans that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat to their existence and that he was responsible for the 9-11 atrocities, beliefs held nowhere else in the world, even in Kuwait and Iran, brutally attacked by Saddam. How long such will work, no one can predict. There have always been strong and healthy currents of independence of thought and resentment of illegitimate authority among the general population, and they constantly reveal themselves in unanticipated ways. A great deal is uncertain -- meaning, subject to will and choice.
6) No. Seriously.
The guy still thinks the exercise of American influence and power is the prime locus of evil on the planet, but I note a certain tone of resignation in his comments. It is almost as if Bush has beaten him down, and drained him of certain vital fluids.
Here we have it. Straight from the horse's anus
Chumpsky supports terrorism. What a shocker.
Ain't America great, Noam?
"I lived briefly in a kibbutz 50 years ago -- and, in fact, thought seriously about staying there. I was very much attracted by the style of life and the form of social organization, though not without serious reservations. I also had an intimate personal involvement, from early childhood, in the social movements of which the kibbutzim were a part. These movements were opposed to establishment of a Jewish state, but within the Zionist movement of the pre-State era. "
What a lot of Chomsky crap again.
Let's see:
"50 years ago" it was then in 1955, SEVEN years AFTER the reborn of Israel State!
" These movements were opposed to establishment of a Jewish state" - while being part of a Jewish state.
Chomsky's father, an ardent Zionist and distinguished Hebraist, is turning in his grave.
For shame, Noah, STFU already!
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