Noam Chomsky: Who Owns the World? Resistance and Ways Forward. An Interview With Noam Chomsky. Noam Chomsky’s latest books are Occupy (Zuccotti Park Press) and Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance (City Lights Publishers). RICARDO LEZAMA: Have you heard about the Stand With Us group/campaign? NOAM CHOMSKY: No. Tell me about it. LEZAMA: They are a group that spread favorable propaganda regarding the IDF on different campuses. CHOMSKY: Never heard of them. LEZAMA: Just trying to see how prominent their campaign was – must be a West Coast/Midwest thing. CHOMSKY: In America, for one thing, all Muslims are subjected to a kind of Islamaphobia. LEZAMA: It is not off the charts? CHOMSKY: It is not off the charts, it shouldn’t be there, but yeah, if you’re a Mexican American in Arizona and you get pulled over, the police can claim you’re doing anything, basically.
LEZAMA: Ok. CHOMSKY: Well, just to go back a bit to June 2008, when a ceasefire was reached between Israel and Hamas, the dominant force in the Gaza strip. LEZAMA: They never even make it to Tel Aviv. Noam Chomsky, Hegemony and Its Dilemmas. Noam Chomsky, Imperial Hegemony and Its Discontents. America in Decline. Hegemony and Its Dilemmas. Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated -- Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. Others are ignored, and we can often learn valuable lessons from them about what is likely to lie ahead. Right now, in fact. At the moment, we are failing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s decision to launch the most destructive and murderous act of aggression of the post-World War II period: the invasion of South Vietnam, later all of Indochina, leaving millions dead and four countries devastated, with casualties still mounting from the long-term effects of drenching South Vietnam with some of the most lethal carcinogens known, undertaken to destroy ground cover and food crops.
The prime target was South Vietnam. There are important lessons in all this for today, even apart from another reminder that only the weak and defeated are called to account for their crimes. The Iraq war is an instructive case. Gauging American Decline. Noam Chomsky on Libertarians and Ron Paul. The Decline Of America by Noam Chomsky. In the 2011 summer issue of the journal of the American Academy of Political Science, we read that it is "a common theme" that the United States, which "only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world as a colossus with unparalleled power and unmatched appeal — is in decline, ominously facing the prospect of its final decay. " It is indeed a common theme, widely believed, and with some reason. But an appraisal of US foreign policy and influence abroad and the strength of its domestic economy and political institutions at home suggests that a number of qualifications are in order.
To begin with, the decline has in fact been proceeding since the high point of US power shortly after World War II, and the remarkable rhetoric of the several years of triumphalism in the 1990s was mostly self-delusion. Furthermore, the commonly drawn corollary — that power will shift to China and India — is highly dubious. They are poor countries with severe internal problems. Not all were so enraptured. Institute for Palestine Studies - Home. Chomsky to Occupy: move to the next stage - This Just In. Noam Chomsky has advice for the Occupy movement, whose encampments all over the country are being swept away by police. The occupations were a "brilliant" idea, he says, but now it's time to "move on to the next stage" in tactics.
He suggests political organizing in the neighborhoods. The Occupy camps have shown people how "to break out of this conception that we're isolated. " But "just occupying" has "lived its life," says the man who is the most revered radical critic of American politics and capitalist economics. Chomsky gave his counsel answering questions in a small group after a speech Monday evening, December 12, in the 1000-seat Westbrook Middle School auditorium (a/k/a Westbrook Performing Arts Center), which was filled to capacity.
#OCCUPY: Complete coverage of #Occupy in New England and beyond The Occupy movement's repression, which Chomsky decried, has a saving grace, he said: the opportunity for it to expand more into "the 99 percent" by engaging people "face to face. "