Secrets, Lies and Democracy: Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian (Real Story)
with both hands (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Terry Sullivan is nothing like me. She is graceful,musical, delicate, intellectually serious, tough-minded, moral but never moralizing, good humored, but never over-the-top. She is 100% Woman,but no feminist. She is very easy on the eyes and reminds me of Audrey Hepburn and Jennifer Jones. We take long drives out of the city and into the rural beauty that is Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan....
Latin America News Review (Free subscription) | yesterday
TOP STORY - The Secret Global Empire(s): Russ Baker & John Perkins (GRITtv) Brazil - Brazil warns of “deterioration” of US relations with South America (MercoPress) Brazil - France, Brazil join forces on climate change (Reuters) Brazil - Lula rebuffs criticism over Ahmadinejad visit (Reuters) El Salvador - The martyrs of El Salvador (The Guardian) Honduras - "Obama, Bush, and Latin...
Bill Totten's Weblog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
What Passes for Major Media Journalism by Stephen Lendman sjlendman.blogspot.com (November 09 2009) Today's major media journalism is biased, irresponsible, sensationalist reporting that distorts, exaggerates or misstates the truth. It's misinformation or agitprop disinformation masquerading as fact to boost circulation, readership, viewers, or listeners, and on vital issues lie about or suppress uncomfortable...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Joel Whitney interviews Noam Chomsky in Guernica Magazine: Guernica:...Utne characterized your work as having “an unflagging sense of outrage.” I’m wondering, when you diligently dissect exactly what your country has done in places like Chile, Vietnam, Iraq, and elsewhere, when...
Per Crucem ad Lucem (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
‘The Nobel Peace Prize committee might well have made truly worthy choices, prominent among them the remarkable Afghan activist Malalai Joya. This brave woman survived the Russians, and then the radical Islamists whose brutality was so extreme that the population welcomed the Taliban. Joya has withstood the Taliban and now the return of the warlords [...]
Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Blogging Tory jabba the roy pushes himself away from the buffet table long enough to hork up another tear jerker (courtesy of Five Feet of Bowel Obstruction): Very sad and frightening If you are a Holocaust denier or noam chomsky you can speak at a US campus. Not if you support Israel or tell the truth about jihad. This time, Nonie, who is the founder of Arabs for Israel, was invited to speak at both...
The Rag Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The symbolic uses of politics:The Gipper and the RogueBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / November 20, 2009Moderate Republicans -- yes, they are not extinct, though most are in hiding -- scoff at Sarah Palin and wish she would go away....Reagan piously gave lip service to the right-wing social agenda while doing nothing to further it by legislation....The ‘Gipper’ talked tough about the Russians...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In our time, a speaker must face a gauntlet of hostility and a menacing crowd if she wishes to speak in favor of Israel or to tell the truth about Islam. That’s if she’s lucky. Most such speakers never get invited or when they do, their invitations are canceled. Nonie Darwish, the author of Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law and Now They Call Me...
Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
If you are a Holocaust denier or noam chomsky you can speak at a US campus. Not if you support Israel or tell the truth about jihad.( h/t ) This time, Nonie, who is the founder of Arabs for Israel, was invited to speak at both Columbia and Princeton. The official invitation at Columbia came from the very distinguished CAMERA, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), and from a new student organization...
What's Left in the Church (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Tomorrow evening, I am going to Chicago to hear George Scialabba talk about his new book, What Are Intellectuals Good For? , where I hope to meet in person Rick Perlstein (I hope I don't stutter or go on and on . . .) and the author/speaker, get an autograph and a photo or two, and generally have a nice evening away. In a symposium at the website CrookedTimber on the book (a collection of review essays),...
The Intersection (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The Knight Program at MIT has a magnificent twice-weekly seminar series, and last week we had our biggest star yet: MIT linguist Noam Chomsky. It was great to hear from the great man in such an intimate setting–particularly about his pioneering work on understanding the origins and nature of language. But at the same time, we [...]
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
ARTICLE: Economy - In Iraq, a rapidly shrinking outlook for American companies, Peyamner News Agency, 13-Nov-09 The key bit: Iraq's Baghdad Trade Fair ended Tuesday, six years and a trillion dollars after the American invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, and...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Guernica: You cite a story in the New York Times where “the reviewer,” you write, “constitutional lawyer Noah Feldman, described Osama [bin Laden]’s descent to greater and greater evil over the years, finally reaching the absolute lower depths, when ‘he put forth the perverse claim that since the United States is a democracy, all citizens [...]
The Indypendent (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The health care speech we wish Obama would give If you like Zizek you might like some of these links! Revisiting the Kansas town 50 years after Capote wrote In Cold Blood Brave: Soldier refuses deployment to care for her child; Arkansas student refuses to say pledge of alegiance until everyone can get married. Envisioning Chinese society in the [...]
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The Jew Flu: The strange illness of Jewish anti-SemitismBy Uzi Silber November 11, 2009 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1127159.html DiagnosisThe 1930s Labor Zionist leader Berl Katznelson asked "Is there another People on Earth so emotionally twisted that they consider everything their nation does despicable and hateful, while every murder, rape, robbery committed by their
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