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A Conversation With Chomsky

Brian K. Noe · April 30, 2015 ·

Isabelle Kumar of Euronews interviews Noam Chomsky on a range of topics. On the subject of Greece’s debt (and that of Portugal and Spain and others) this is what he said.

Who incurred this debt? And who is the debt owed to? In part, the debt was incurred by dictators. So in Greece it was the fascist dictatorship, which the US supported, that incurred a large part of the debt. The debt I think was more brutal than the dictatorship, and that’s what’s called in international law, “odious debt” which need not be paid, and that’s a principal introduced into international law by the United States, when it was in their interest to do so. Much of the rest of the debt, what is called payments to Greece are in fact payments to banks, German and French banks, which had decided to make extremely risky loans with not very high interest and are now being faced with the fact that they can’t be paid back.

Read the Transcript: Chomsky says US is world’s biggest terrorist | euronews, the global conversation

Here’s the video.

Filed Under: Curated Links, Video Tagged With: Chomsky, Climate, Drones, Europe, European Debt Crisis, Greece, Iran, Nuclear War, Terrorism, War

Chomsky Reclaims MLK

Brian K. Noe · January 18, 2015 ·

Professor Noam Chomsky explains why Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.

From the Atlanta Blackstar.

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: Chomsky, History, MLK, Racism

A Reminder from Chomsky: It’s the Institutions that Matter

Brian K. Noe · April 23, 2014 ·

Tim Donovan has an interesting piece over on Salon encouraging the Left to keep our focus where it matters.

He includes this quote from Noam Chomsky.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine. Benevolent, friendly, nice to the children, even nice to their slaves. Caring about other people. I mean, as individuals they may be anything, but in their institutional role, they’re monsters, because the institution is monstrous.

Read the article: Noam Chomsky was right: Why the Koch brothers are obscuring the real enemy – Salon.com.

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: Chomsky, Koch Brothers, Salon

Pure Savagery

Brian K. Noe · January 10, 2014 ·

 

Professor Chomsky speaks on American politics’ descent into madness.

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: Chomsky, Politics, Poverty, Public Policy, Safety Net

Chomsky: Rebellion or New Dark Age?

Brian K. Noe · May 9, 2012 ·

If the bonds and associations established by the Occupy movement can be sustained through a long, dark period ahead – because victory won’t come quickly – it could prove a significant moment in American history.

Read More: Noam Chomsky, A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age? [TomDispatch]

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: Chomsky, Occupy

Chomsky on Occupy and an Empire in Decline

Brian K. Noe · April 24, 2012 ·

Noam Chomsky on America’s Declining Empire, Occupy and the Arab Spring. [AlterNet] – Last year, the Occupy Movement rose up spontaneously in cities and towns across the country, radically shifted the discourse and rattled the economic elite with its defiant populism. It was, according to Noam Chomsky, “the first major public response to thirty years of class war.”

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: Chomsky, Occupy

Noam Chomsky: Behind the Attack on Public Education

Brian K. Noe · April 6, 2012 ·

Chomsky: How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey. [AlterNet] – Forty years ago there was deep concern that the population was breaking free of apathy and obedience. Since then, many measures have been taken to restore discipline. Read more.

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: Chomsky, Class Struggles, Education, Public Policy

Sunday Morning Quote

Brian K. Noe · December 18, 2011 ·

During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands. The naive might call that democracy, but that’s because they don’t understand. The sophisticated understand that that’s the crisis of democracy.

– Noam Chomsky

From a Lecture at the University of Wisconsin on 15 March 1989

Filed Under: Quotes Tagged With: Chomsky

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