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Original Technorati articles tagged “chomsky”

• in Politics
  Chomsky: An Unsung Hero
  A Profound Minority Voice
  by aldussault / on Sep 6, 2011
• in Politics
  Chomsky vs Limbaugh: Or, Angels vs. Pigs
  Chomsky vs. Limbaugh: angels and pigs
  by aldussault / on Aug 5, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “chomsky”

 

• The Real Noam Chomsky? II

  
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  Sheesh! Where does Noam Chomsky stand on boycotting Israel?  I just cant keep up with him.  One of my co-bloggers, Gabriel Ash, wrote a piece back in 2009 taking Chomsky to task for bad reasoning over his opposition to BDS.  More recently, last year, I wrote a piece expressing surprise that Chomsky was ...
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• Noam Chomsky helped lobby Stephen Hawking to stage Israel boycott

  
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  US professor Noam Chomsky expressed regret at Hawkings initial acceptance of invitation to speak at conference in Israel Noam Chomsky was among 20 academics who privately lobbied Professor Stephen Hawking to boycott a major Israeli conference, it has emerged. Chomsky, a US professor and well-known supporter of the ...
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• Exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky on Pakistan elections

  
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  Noam Chomsky. — Photo by AFP/File By Ayyaz Mallick | DAWN.COM Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Noam Chomsky, is without doubt the most widely heard and read public intellectual alive today. Although trained in linguistics, he has written on and extensively critiqued a ...
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• Stephen Hawking and Some Other Public Intellectual Dumb-assesI

  
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   "If a man isnt willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or hes no good." --- Ezra Pound Sometimes both are true, Mr. Pound.  Love your poetry, but I would take a pass on a pub crawl with you. I have a weird social code. If I get on someones nerves, I try avoid social contact ...
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• Noam Chomsky: US, A Top Terrorist State

  
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  Over at Z Magazine ,  Noam Chomsky  argues that under international law, the United States would be considered a top terrorist state. Source: Press TV  -  Noam Chomskys ZSpace Page . Cant say I disagree. Noam Chomsky: US, A Top Terrorist State In this episode of press TVs documentary program renowned ...
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• Ceguera académica | entrelociertoyloverdadero

  
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  Hace ya un buen número de años, atraído por algunas lecturas que lo mencionaban (Lezama Lima el cubano, por ejemplo) me acerqué a la obra de Gianbattista Vico (1668-1744) filósofo italiano que para muchos fue el fundador de la filosofía de la Historia. Tuve oportunidad de leer “La Ciencia Nueva”, su obra ...
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• Noam Chomsky: Things Are Ugly—Do Something About It (2010)

  
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  Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky videonation – May 6, 2013 Post-9/11 repression pales in comparison to what Americans have had in the past, and we have more ways to make a change than people used to have. So why aren’t we doing anything with them? “I’ve never seen such fear and anger in the country [...]
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• Creating Hatred Where It Didnt Exist Before

  
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  Trey Smith April is usually a cheerful month in New England, with the first signs of spring, and the harsh winter at last receding. Not this year. There are few in Boston who were not touched in some way by the marathon bombings on April 15 and the tense week that followed. Several friends of mine were ...
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• Why standing up for human rights, against the tide, matters

  
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  Salman Rushdie writes in the New York Times on 27 April : We find it easier, in these confused times, to admire physical bravery than moral courage — the courage of the life of the mind, or of public figures. A man in a cowboy hat vaults a fence to help Boston bomb victims while others flee the scene: we ...
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• POLITICS: Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Attack on Civil Liberties Has Gone Way Beyond Imagination

  
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  POLITICS: Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Attack on Civil Liberties Has Gone Way Beyond Imagination A great interview with a great man. At least some people on the left can acknowledge that Obama is not really left or liberal. The amazing part is how people just plug their fingers into their ears and pretend like none of ...
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• Noam Chomsky: Drones Come Home To Roost + Jeremy Scahill: Dirty Wars

  
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  Dandelion Salad Akshay Pahilajani on Apr 29, 2013 Noam Chomsky in a discussion on “Dirty Wars” talks about drones coming home to roost. *** Amy Goodman with Jeremy Scahill and Noam Chomsky, Dirty Wars Book Event Cambridge, MA April 27, 2013 [...] Join investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, author Noam Chomsky, ...
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• The Awesome Power of Self-Selection

  
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  Why I never became a journalist In my first two years of college, I wandered from major to major — theatre, undecided, political science. One muggy day in the summer of 1979, I realized I was going nowhere. I was working in Columbus, Ohio, for a guy whose business model had something to do with selling frozen meat ...
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• NOT Another 9-11 Article (rolls eyes*)

  
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   You know him. Maybe you are him. The casual acquaintance, not quite friend, he saunters forward, dilated pupils scanning over each of his shoulders, iPad casually out and ready, a knowing smile forming a crest of righteously pompous paranoia across his stubbled jaw, beads of youthfully [...] The post NOT Another ...
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• What Came To My Mind As I Re-Read Again The Tapestry of Culture

  
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  I read the book when I was in my Master Degree years ago. I forgot what edition I was reading, but the most recent one, its ninth edition is still a good way to start into Anthropology. Being an outsider to Anthropology, well its not my major.....but still, I think.... reading this colorful book (colorful in the sense ...
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• Automatic Grading

  
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  When I learned that EdX had developed software that would instantly grade written work, my first reaction was one of skepticism. After all, while (Photo credit: Wikipedia) spell-checkers work well and grammar checkers work sort of well, it seems unlikely that software could properly evaluate written work. My ...
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• Your daily quote – April 25

  
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  “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum….” ― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good
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• Noam Chomsky: We Have Huge Institutions Devoted To Making People Stupid

  
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  Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky LeMatt87n – Apr 23, 2013 Recorded at MIT on March 26, 2013 We visited Noam mostly because we’re fans and decided to ask a few questions in a non-structured format. Apologies for the difference in volume between speakers. see The Propaganda System That Has Helped Create a Permanent ...
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• BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : Conversations on U.S. State Terrorism

  
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  Weapon of the Strong Interviews from State of NatureThroughout the text is an underlying question of language and its meaning. Why is one act considered terrorism while another act that is essentially the same not considered so?By Ron Jacobs / The Rag Blog / April 23, 2013Weapon of the Strong: Conversations on U.S. ...
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• Noam Chomsky: Against Privatisation at Sussex

  
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  Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky Akshay Pahilajani – Apr 17, 2013 * see Noam Chomsky: The Gospels Are Radical Pacifist Documents Failed Privatizations — The Thatcher Legacy by Michael Hudson Michael Hudson: Solution to Student Debt is to Get the Banks Out of the Education Business Noam Chomsky: Education and ...
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• Martha Nussbaum In Dissent–Violence On The Left: Nandigram And The Communists Of West Bengal

  
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  Full article here  (subscription required) It’s a complicated tale of economic growth, leftism, the government likely having violated the principle of treating people as ends and not means to achieve that economic growth…acting brutally. And as Nussbaum frames it:  it’s a tale of the anti-liberal ...
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