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Thread started 07/08/03 3:35pm

2freaky4church
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Anyone read Noam Chomsky?

Best political writing you will find. I wish I could give a copy to our goofy Prince.
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Reply #1 posted 07/08/03 3:38pm

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"The Essential Noam Chomsky" has been sitting on my bookshelf for a while... still waiting for winter to read that one... too deep for summertime...
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Reply #2 posted 07/08/03 3:39pm

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Oh, read it. lol
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Reply #3 posted 07/08/03 3:49pm

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2freaky4church1 said:

Oh, read it. lol


i definitely will!
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Reply #4 posted 07/08/03 3:56pm

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i've read him. yeah, he is an expert political writing. unfortunately, he's a hypocrite and 75% wrong. but yes, he is a great political writer in the way that Rush Limbaugh is a great political speaker.
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Reply #5 posted 07/08/03 5:17pm

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I friggin' LOVE Chomsky. Manufacturing Consent is a MUST read. Chomsky may be one of the last of the Left. We gotta retake the White House, liberals!

Enough of the Conservative Rhetoric:

WAR IS PEACE
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

Orwell saw this coming...
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Reply #6 posted 07/08/03 6:39pm

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DudeDrops said:

I friggin' LOVE Chomsky. Manufacturing Consent is a MUST read. Chomsky may be one of the last of the Left. We gotta retake the White House, liberals!

Enough of the Conservative Rhetoric:

WAR IS PEACE
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

Orwell saw this coming...


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Reply #7 posted 07/11/03 12:48am

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The charge of both anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism is regularly made by propagandists against those who do not happen 2 share their enthusiasm 4 invasions of sovereign states and the spreading of neoliberalism by arms. Whats interesting is that the most outspoken critics of their world-view R either American or Jewish, interestingly Noam Chomsky is both. I think he's admirable in that he's spent about 4 decades warning of the danger that US imperialism poses 2 the peace and security of the world.
Its interesting how is work on grammar and language deeply influence on his political thinking. 4 Chomsky the word 'democracy' has 2 distinct meanings. According, 2 the dictionary a system is democratic 2 the extent that its citizens have way 2 participate in decisions about pubplic affairs. In the ideological sense of democracy, a society is deemed democratic by the US only if its business is run in a way that is subordinate 2 the interests of US business. Thus, it somewhat remains no longer puzzling why Yugoslavia 4 example in the '90s were denied the label 'democratic' by the US state department, despite the holding of free elections.
With the fall of communism in the Soviet Union he feared that the vaccum would create a US military-industrail complex that would seek out new victims 2 justify its existence as shown recently with the war in Iraq. That it has done so successfully owes much 2 what Chomsky calls an 'unholy alliance' between the US state and the 'corporate media'.
4 any1 wanting 2 find out more about why the US ignored the genocide in East Timor but intervened so aggresively in a low-scale civil war in Kosovo, read Noam Chomsky.
Although he may B disliked by the establishment, his exposing of truths about the way the US is run and by reminding us that US military spending protects not US citizens but the interests of US corporations, Chomsky has done the US and the world a vital service. This 2 gether with his works on language, make him a fantastic thinker.

Try: Terrorizing the Neighbourhood: American foreign policy in the post-cold war era
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