Noam Chomsky

South Africa: Ordinary Citizens and Public Intellectuals

opinion Johannesburg — WILLIAM Gumede and Leslie Dikeni's fascinating new collection of essays, The Poverty of Ideas, sheds fresh light on the changing role of intellectuals in post-apartheid SA. Chapters by a dazzling array of...

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Noam Chomsky on BBC's Hardtalk

Chomsky condemns "immoral" Afghan war. BBC Hardtalk. November 3, 2009. Posted Sunday, November 22, 2009 Spanish versions of four recent Chomsky articles Recent Chomsky interview Interview: Noam Chomsky. With The Imagineer. May...

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Dell Hymes, Linguist With a Wide Net, Dies at 82

Dell H. Hymes, a prominent anthropologist, linguist and folklorist whose work mined the rich, often overlooked territory where language and culture intersect, died on Nov. 13 in Charlottesville, Va. He was 82 and lived in...

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Advice from Noam Chomsky: Don’t believe, don’t ridicule (Mike Soron)

From an interview at ZNet, valuable advice from Noam Chomsky: Don’t believe anything you hear from power systems. So if Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they’re doing this, that, or the other thing,...

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From The NY Times Via The A & L Daily: ‘Who Fears a Free Mikhail Khodorkovsky?’

Full article here. So how is the old state apparatus faring in Russia during the Putin clampdown, and who are its challengers..?: “His motives may have been mercenary, but Khodorkovsky in his cell has come to embody the fiat of...

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Joe Sacco | interview

Colleagues laughed when a young journalist in Palestine announced his intention to tell the story of that region though cartoons. Twenty years later, Joe Sacco is one of the world's leading exponents of the graphic novel form…...

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On NY trial for 9/11 figure - San Francisco Chronicle

New York Daily News On NY trial for 9/11 figure San Francisco Chronicle "I'm not scared of what (self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed) would say at trial," Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary...

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Sima Nan Comments On Obama's China Trip

Background: Sima Nan Wikipedia Sima Nan: Why didn't Obama talk about Shanghai Disney? Fourthly, I don't think that Disney was a topic that Obama deemed worthy of discussion during this trip to China. At a time when that...

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Three of a kind: Revealing language`s universal essence

On the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies of these three languages are...

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Still his own man

SEUMAS MILNE | LONDON, ENGLAND - Nov 20 2009 14:35 Noam Chomsky is the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar. Like the English philosopher, Bertrand Russell, who spoke out against...

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