Posted in Israel, Media Distortion, tagged Chomsky, Israel, Media, Noam Chomsky on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On October 3, just after the deadly massacre, Bill Clinton made the biggest deal in a decade to send military helicopters to Israel. The US media bluntly refused to publish this report, and according to Noam Chomsky, the editors made that decision. Chomsky and others went to talk to most of the editors, and they simply made it clear that they were not going to publish the story. The entire US media just refused to publish this.
via allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: What Drives Media Bias? (Page 1 of 2).
Posted in Iran, Israel, Lectures, Media Distortion, Obama, tagged Chomsky, Iran, Israel, Media, Noam Chomsky, Obama on December 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Armed with a stockpile of caustic sound bites, Noam Chomsky took to a lectern at the College of General Studies Tuesday night to address the chances for Middle East peace and to rail against the world’s most ruthless terrorists.
He was referring to the United States and Israel.
Although he acknowledged that President Barack Obama “is probably a nice man,” Chomsky had no constructive words for the president, who he charged with deceiving and humoring those who elected him while continuing to do the bidding of those who have turned America into the imperialist “Godfather.” Pointing out that the Nobel Committee’s award of the Peace Prize to Obama in October coincided with his endorsement of a plan to build more stealth bomber planes, Chomsky disparagingly referred to “Obama’s inspiring contribution to peace … which you can look for under a microscope.”
Posted in Censorship, tagged Chomsky, Media, Noam Chomsky on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday, the last day of his 81st year, Noam Chomsky gave a speech on Gaza in Watertown, Mass., at the behest of Newton Dialogues on Peace and War. They raised alot of money for the Gaza Freedom March. I heard a rumor that the original venue for the speech, Eliot Church in Newton, had dropped the speech under pressure, saying that the speech was “controversial” and had not gone through the appropriate processes for church events. I emailed Newton Dialogues. Dave Ascher responded. If you read between the lines of his response below, it is clear that the Eliot Church came under pressure because of the political nature of the Chomsky speech.
via Boston-area church cancelled Chomsky speech at last minute.
Posted in Technology, tagged Chomsky, Media, Noam Chomsky on December 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The truth is more accessible then ever. At the height of the Vietnam War, only a few obscure bookshops stocked the critical writings of Noam Chomsky. Today, every voter can read his deconstruction of the Afghan and Iraq wars for free – although it still has to contend with the endless machine of bogus news that dominates our discourse.
