Renowned political dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky recently spoke with Alternative Radio鈥檚 David Barsamian about the war in Ukraine.
Noam Chomsky
United States anti-war activist Professor Noam Chomsky said聽regional聽solutions exist聽for the two main confrontations today 鈥斅燯kraine and China 鈥 but that the聽US president is not interested.
Renowned Jewish-American academic and author Noam Chomsky visited the Gaza Strip over October 25-30. The article below, on the suffering of the Gazan people, is areprinted from .
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People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That鈥檚 because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning. For example, Ronald Reagan designated what he called, 鈥淟aw Day鈥 鈥 a day of jingoist fanaticism, like an extra twist of the knife in the labour movement. Today, there is a renewed awareness, energised by the Occupy movement鈥檚 organising, around May Day, and its relevance for reform and perhaps eventual revolution.
A task of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, now under way in Durban, South Africa, is to extend earlier policy decisions that were limited in scope and only partially implemented.
These decisions trace back to the U.N. Convention of 1992 and the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, which the U.S. refused to join. The Kyoto Protocol鈥檚 first commitment period ends in 2012. A fairly general pre-conference mood was captured by a New York Times headline: 鈥淯rgent Issues but Low Expectations.鈥
January 21, 2010, will go down as a dark day in the history of US democracy, and its decline.
The United States was founded as an 鈥渋nfant empire鈥, in the words of George Washington. From the earliest days, control over the hemisphere was a critical goal.
At an October 6 public meeting in Boston, US dissident intellectual Noam Chomsky gave the following remarks on the threat posed to the radical governments of Venezuela and Bolivia by Washington in response to an audience member聮s question.