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Israel Threatens “Sabotage” and “Attack” on Global Peace/Justice Groups
Sat, 02/20/2010 - 11:21am | mal contends
I told a friend recently that I miss the days when working for peace made one a "pinko-commie-queer," intended as insults. Now, to work for peace is to be anti-Semitic.
Tags: Noam Chomsky at Edgewood last night
Tue, 04/07/2009 - 8:46am | Steve Hanson
Thanks to our friends at On The Earth Productions for this video of Noam Chomsky last night at Edgewood College.
Noam Chomsky;. "US Foreign Policy, Israeli Security, & Human Rights"
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 10:19am | mal contends
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Noam Chomsky; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Assessing the role of US Foreign Policy, Israeli Security, & Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories”
Orpheum Theater; 216 State Street; 7:30pm
Kathleen Falk, Democrats and Louis Brandeis
Sun, 02/15/2009 - 6:02pm | mal contends
Update: Related piece by Adam Cohen warns that the Supreme Court May Be About to Kill Off the Exclusionary Rule (NYT)
"They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men. To protect that right, every unjustifiable intrusion by the Government upon the privacy of the individual, whatever the means employed, must be deemed a violation of the Fourth Amendment."
- Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, (the "People's Attorney") dissenting opinion in Olmstead v. United States (1928)
The American electorate is regularly treated to examples of Democrats and liberals going along to get along with the powers that be.
Too often this going along involves complicity in appalling violations of our liberties at home, and inhumanity abroad as we loose our killing machine upon innocents.
"They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men. To protect that right, every unjustifiable intrusion by the Government upon the privacy of the individual, whatever the means employed, must be deemed a violation of the Fourth Amendment."
- Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, (the "People's Attorney") dissenting opinion in Olmstead v. United States (1928)
The American electorate is regularly treated to examples of Democrats and liberals going along to get along with the powers that be.
Too often this going along involves complicity in appalling violations of our liberties at home, and inhumanity abroad as we loose our killing machine upon innocents.
Corporate Media Dumbs Down Foreign Policy
Tue, 12/02/2008 - 7:38am | mal contends
The new foreign policy team - Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state; Gen. James L. Jones as national security adviser, and Robert M. Gates who will stay on as secretary of defense - are named.
And so do the networks use the occasion to comment on the lies of the Iraq War, the sham of the War on Terror, the obscene amount of money used on armaments? The deaths of 100,000s? Perhaps speculating on whether this will change?
No, the talk of the day is will Hillary get along with Robert and will Hillary get along with Barack? Will the U.S. be okay and recover from its mistakes?
If anyone doubts that Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky are spot-on in their institutional analysis of the corporate mass media in their Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Pantheon, 1988), I recommend reading the book or the transcript of Chomsky's talk delivered at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, March 15, 1989.
And so do the networks use the occasion to comment on the lies of the Iraq War, the sham of the War on Terror, the obscene amount of money used on armaments? The deaths of 100,000s? Perhaps speculating on whether this will change?
No, the talk of the day is will Hillary get along with Robert and will Hillary get along with Barack? Will the U.S. be okay and recover from its mistakes?
If anyone doubts that Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky are spot-on in their institutional analysis of the corporate mass media in their Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Pantheon, 1988), I recommend reading the book or the transcript of Chomsky's talk delivered at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, March 15, 1989.
Not Qualified to Follow
Thu, 09/18/2008 - 8:13am | mal contends
The latest New York Times/CBS News poll finds that most Americans aren't buying the Sarah Palin never-blinks-and-so-ready-to-lead line.
"More than 6 in 10 said they would be concerned if Mr. McCain could not finish his term and Ms. Palin had to take over," says the Times piece.
Polling questions are not always well-formulated.
John McCain, on the other hand, after championing deregulation for decades and seeing his numbers drop, now says his "experience and leadership" will lead the way to reforming Wall Street and protecting the American people.
It's looking likely that most Americans won't buy McCain's line in November.
But one has to wonder what goes on in the mind of the depoliticized American voter in ruminating about qualifications and experience to occupy the presidency.
I mean George W. Bush has been president for seven years and he is still not qualified to serve as president. What would the American public say to the is-Bush-qualified-to-lead question?
"More than 6 in 10 said they would be concerned if Mr. McCain could not finish his term and Ms. Palin had to take over," says the Times piece.
Polling questions are not always well-formulated.
John McCain, on the other hand, after championing deregulation for decades and seeing his numbers drop, now says his "experience and leadership" will lead the way to reforming Wall Street and protecting the American people.
It's looking likely that most Americans won't buy McCain's line in November.
But one has to wonder what goes on in the mind of the depoliticized American voter in ruminating about qualifications and experience to occupy the presidency.
I mean George W. Bush has been president for seven years and he is still not qualified to serve as president. What would the American public say to the is-Bush-qualified-to-lead question?
Washington Post Smears and Censors Noam Chomsky
Wed, 10/03/2007 - 7:43am | mal contends
Via MAL Contends - Several years ago I interviewed Noam Chomsky on his book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media prior to his speaking engagement in Madison, Wisconsin.
It was the easiest interview that I have done. I asked two questions, one of which was “for example,” and received extensive and instructive responses.
“Thanks Noam,” I said at the end. All I really needed were a few quotes for a daily newspaper piece, but it was an engaging interview.