Consider your origins. You were not meant to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge – Dante Alighieri. This is Noam Chomsky recorded during a video conference in 2023. This is about as succinct and straight shooting as Noam gets. He offers his signature truth-telling aimed at the center of our global self-terminating… Read More Noam Chomsky: The End of Organized Humanity
As news of Noam Chomsky’s failing health makes the rounds, a journalist and peace activist from Pakistan shares some of her learnings from interactions with a trailblazing public intellectual whose moral compass has impacted the world By Beena Sarwar I once asked Noam Chomsky how he manages to remember so many facts and figures and… Read More What I’ve learned from Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian: When Lunatics Run the Asylum I’m proud to have lived through the last 20-odd years at TomDispatch with Noam Chomsky, now a remarkable 94. In the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks and the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, I stumbled into creating this site and, in October 2003, first posted a piece of his… Read More Noam Chomsky: Savage capitalist lunatics are running the asylum
NB: A young friend has brought to my notice what this gizmo says about me – its a farrago of lies and half truths. This machine makes me two years older than I am (which is old enough thank you); and attributes to me new-age kind of mumbo-jumbo statements which I have never made. ChatGPT… Read More Noam Chomsky says ChatGPT is a form of High-Tech Plagiarism
First posted April 06, 2020 George Russell Lakey (born 2 November 1937) is an activist, sociologist, and writer who added academic underpinning to the concept of nonviolent revolution. He also refined the practice of experiential training for activists which he calls “Direct Education”. A Quaker, he has co-founded and led numerous organizations and campaigns for justice and peace.” Emergencies… Read More George Lakey on Capitalism, public health and the Nordic model / Noam Chomsky nails the most overlooked element of the pandemic
The following is excerpted in shortened form from Chapter 9 of Notes on Resistance by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, published by Haymarket Books David Barsamian: What we are facing is often described as unprecedented — a pandemic, climate catastrophe and, always lurking off center stage, nuclear annihilation. Three of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Noam… Read More Noam Chomsky: Optimism of the Will
First posted May 31, 2016 IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies. This, at least, may seem enough of a truism to pass over without comment. Not so, however. For the modern intellectual, it is not at all obvious. TWENTY-YEARS AGO, Dwight Macdonald published a series of articles… Read More Noam Chomsky, The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967)
Chris Hedges: Worthy and Unworthy Victims Dividing the world into worthy and unworthy victims is a tactic used to justify our crimes and demonize our enemies. Conflicts will not be solved until all nations abide by international law and all victims are deemed worthy. Rulers divide the world into worthy and unworthy victims, those… Read More Chris Hedges: Worthy and Unworthy Victims / Noam Chomsky: US Military Escalation Against Russia Would Have No Victors
The left-wing author slammed Democrats as well as Republicans during the interview, stressing that Democrats moved away from New Deal economic policies during the centrist presidencies of Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s and Bill Clinton during the 1990s. “By the late 1970s — the late Carter years — the Democrats basically told the working… Read More Noam Chomsky explains why 'vicious class war' on American workers prevails / AOC blasts colleagues for feeding 'right-wing vitriol'
After the truth-shower 