Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media. Selections, by Noam Chomsky (Excerpted from Media Control) Noam Chomsky: How Close the World Is to Nuclear War. Excerpt: "Actually, nuclear war has come unpleasantly close many times since 1945.
There are literally dozens of occasions in which there was a significant threat of nuclear war. " By Noam Chomsky, Laray Polk, Seven Stories Press. Noam Chomsky Exclusive: A Conversation on the Waning of American Power. Noam Chomsky's voice is a soft lament as he talks of the land of his birth, a land at odds with itself.
"American imperial influence has diminished," he tells me, "but we should remember that American power has been on the wane since 1945. Who Owns the World? When I was thinking about these remarks, I had two topics in mind, couldn't decide between them -- actually pretty obvious ones.
One topic is, what are the most important issues that we face? The second topic is, what issues are not being treated seriously -- or at all -- in the quadrennial frenzy now underway called an election? But I realized that there's no problem; it's not a hard choice: they're the same topic. And there are reasons for it, which are very significant in themselves. I'd like to return to that in a moment. Actually, a good answer to this was given years ago by Adam Smith, someone we're supposed to worship but not read. But he was an old-fashioned conservative with moral principles, so he added the victims of England, the victims of the -- what he called the "savage injustice of the Europeans," particularly in India.
Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. And planners understood it. "Psywar: The Real Battlefield Is the Mind" [Documentary] (Video) Best of TomDispatch: Noam Chomsky, "The Most Dangerous Moment" Noam Chomsky - The US vs the Third World. Chomsky: The U.S. behaves nothing like a democracy. I’d like to comment on topics that I think should regularly be on the front pages but are not — and in many crucial cases are scarcely mentioned at all or are presented in ways that seem to me deceptive because they’re framed almost reflexively in terms of doctrines of the powerful.
In these comments I’ll focus primarily on the United States for several reasons: One, it’s the most important country in terms of its power and influence. Second, it’s the most advanced – not in its inherent character, but in the sense that because of its power, other societies tend to move in that direction. Noam Chomsky. Spike. "The Life of Noam Chomsky" (Full Interview) Howard Zinn "How Should History Be Taught In Schools, Studied, and Written" (1997)
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The United States can be held to lead the international community only if that community is defined as the U.S. and whoever happens to go along with it, often through intimidation, as is sometimes tacitly conceded. An interim agreement on Iran's nuclear policies that will provide a six-month period for substantive negotiations was announced on November 24. Michael Gordon, a reporter for the New York Times, wrote, “It was the first time in nearly a decade, American officials said, that an international agreement had been reached to halt much of Iran's nuclear program and roll some elements of it back.”
The United States moved at once to impose severe penalties on a Swiss firm that had violated U.S. -imposed sanctions. The “landmark accord” indeed includes significant Iranian concessions–though nothing comparable from the United States, which merely agreed to temporarily limit its punishment of Iran. It's easy to imagine possible U.S. concessions. Noam Chomsky - Imperial Grand Strategy Part 1. Noam Chomsky - Media Control and Indoctrination in the United States. Noam Chomsky - Media Control and Indoctrination in the United States By Noam Chomsky Catherine Komp: It’s been twenty- five years since the publication of your and Edward Herman’s acclaimed book Manufacturing Consent.
How much do you think has changed with the propaganda model, and where do you see it playing out most prominently today? Noam Chomsky: Well, ten years ago we had a re-edition and we talked about some of the changes. One change is that we were too narrow. There are a number of filters that determine the framework of reporting, and one of the filters was too narrow.
The United States is a very frightened country. There is change. If we were sitting here wondering if, all of a sudden, there’s going to be a bomb in this room, because they maybe want to kill him or kill us or whatever, it’s terrorizing. So, some progress. Yes. Independent media ought to be telling the truth about things that matter. Take, for example, current domestic issues. Why are they coming? Noam Chomsky. Noam Chomsky "The Two 911's" (Full Lecture) Noam Chomsky (2013) on "Communism, Revolutionary Violence, the American Left and Zizek" Noam Chomsky.