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A session to discuss Noam Chomsky’s latest book was abruptly cancelled by the fest organisers on Friday
The noted political commentator on the campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel
'The principle on which the international system is based is that the United States is entitled to use force at will. To talk about the United States violating international law or something like that is amazingly naive,...
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'Was this a question of censorship?' asks a statement published online after panel discussion was abruptly cancelled.
'...sadistic, vicious, murderous, totally without any credible pretext. It’s another one of the periodic Israeli exercises in what they delicately call "mowing the lawn."'
On the ongoing conflict in Syria, protests in Turkey, Edward Snowden, and what is left of the 'Arab Spring'': 'I do not know if it is an Arab Winter, but at least an Arab Autumn'.
Umar Khalid has been arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in a case related to the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February this year.
How did genocide denial become a doctrine of the internationalist left?
No one suggests that Chomsky supports terrorism or is coming to spy. His entry was denied solely because of his views.
From invasions to reasons for staying. What would constitute 'victory'? What are the motivations guiding US policy? What went wrong? What explains the calls...
On the future of Iraq, unfair comparisons with Vietnam, Hitchens' and others' criticism, moral relativism, jihadists, Osama bin Laden, possible lessons from...
A wide ranging interview -- from how the elections in Iraq were actually a success, to how 'globalisation' is as much a distortion as 'democracy' was in the...
Iraq is to be what the British, when they ran the region, called an "Arab facade," with British power in the background if the country seeks too much...
So why did NYT magazine try to make Noam Chomsky look like a clown, with questions like this? 'I don't think they tried. I think it just comes naturally to...
Everybody hates him, says the world's most quoted intellectual, but the thin support in US polls for the war is based on fear.-- and those in office, almost...
Whatever happens in Iraq, the popular movements should be invigorated to confront the far larger and continuing threat, which is sure to take new forms, and is...
Within two years the Bush administration has succeeded in making the US the most feared nation in the world, and the most disliked, even hated. That's quite an...
Take away the fear factor, and the US is probably much like the rest of the world with regard to the war in Iraq: overwhelming opposition.
The basic issues remain: (1) Who will run Iraq, Iraqis or a clique in Crawford Texas? (2) Will the American people permit the narrow reactionary sectors that...
On the post-invasion and occupation scenario -- the regional implications, 'roadmap for peace', how central is oil to US strategy, threats to and intimidation...
The world's 'most important intellectual' answered questions from listeners from around the world on Amsterdam Forum - Radio Netherlands' interactive...
'One of the reasons why I am considered public enemy number one among a large sector of intellectuals in the US is that I mention that the U.S. is one of the...
As a could've been gook, and who knows, perhaps a potential gook, hardly a day goes by when I don't find myself thinking — for one reason or another —...
Noam Chomsky on whether pacific means can adequately combat terrorism. Free Speech: Is Gandhi increasingly, utterly, irrelevant as we mourn him on his death...
