Noam Chomsky

Don't Sleep, There are Snakes

Don't Sleep, There are Snakes Daniel L. Everett Pantheon Books; 283 pages The Gist: Daniel Everett came to the Pirahã as a Christian missionary. They laugh when they're full and they laugh when they're hungry... This pervasive...

Dumbo in the Living Room

I voted for Cynthia McKinney because she was the only candidate who sees him (I think it is a he). The others either don't, or won't admit it, and I see no significant difference between these two points of non-view. According...

AUSTRALIA: No to the death penalty, no to hypocrisy

EDITORIAL, AUSTRALIA No to the death penalty, no to hypocrisy After midnight on November 9, Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim and Mukhlas Nurhasyim were executed by firing squad on the Indonesian prison island of Nusakambangan....

Changing Times

By Tisaranee Gunasekara Crises are times of change; the greater the crisis the profounder the change can be, either for good or ill. The Great Depression gave birth to the New Deal in the US and brought Hitler to power in...

The Nature of Empire

"If war aims are stated which seem to be solely concerned with Anglo-American imperialism, they will offer little to people in the rest of the world. The interests of other peoples should be stressed. This would have a better...

A breath of fresh air

published: Saturday | November 15, 2008 The Editor, Sir: Regarding Friday's editorial on the death penalty debate, I really had to pause for a minute. Did the editorial board of The Gleaner really just, unequivocally, with (few...

Red Dawn Over America: Understanding & Resolve

Our opponents, the Socialist Democrats, have considered themselves at war with America for a very long time. Obama has been careful to candy coat it with words like “hope” and “change,” and to obscure the clear intentions of...

Indymedia and the Enclosure of the Internet

London Indymedia There has been controversy recently on the global imc-communication and imc-tech lists over the issue of a $200,000 grant application sent to the Knight Foundation by IMC Boston to do Drupal development work...

How I Spent Election Night in a Baltimore Jail

On a night of historic celebration, Baltimore city police arrested revelers without cause or provocation. It was sometime between 2 and 3 a.m., and I was handcuffed and sitting inside a Baltimore police paddy wagon. Why was I,...

Back to the Capital Community - Noam Chomsky in Tallinn (1-3)

“Mr. Chomsky, What do you think about Barack Obama, your new President?” It is with this – predictable – question that the videoconference with Noam Chomsky, one of the highest intellectual nowadays starts in Von Krahl. And as...

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