1940-1989: The Cold War
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 9 2006 12:35
Noam Chomsky explains the nature of the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union before its collapse in 1989.
How the Cold War worked
1986: The Iran-Contra Affair
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 8 2006 14:57
Chomsky's brief account of the US selling arms to Iran via Israel in order to fund far-right paramilitary contras in Nicaragua.
The major elements of the Iran/contra story were well known long before the 1986 exposures, apart from one fact: that the sale of arms to Iran via Israel and the illegal contra war run out of Colonel Oliver North's White House office were connected.
1970-1987: The contra war in Nicaragua
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 8 2006 14:40
Noam Chomsky's account of the US-backed “contra” counter-insurgency in Nicaragua against the left-wing government brought to power on the back of a popular mass movement from below.
It wasn't just the events in El Salvador that were ignored by the mainstream US media during the 1970s. In the ten years prior to the overthrow of the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, US television - all networks - devoted exactly one hour to Nicaragua, and that was entirely on the Managua earthquake of 1972.
1944-1989: The coup and US intervention in Guatemala
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 8 2006 13:48
Noam Chomsky on the US intervention and coup following the 1944 revolution which overthrew Guatemala's brutal dictator.
Making Guatemala a killing field
1970-1990: The war of counter-insurgency in El Salvador
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 8 2006 13:44
Noam Chomsky on the ultra-violent war of the right-wing regime in El Salvador against grassroots resistance of workers, peasants and liberation theologists – socialist clergymen and women.
The crucifixion of El Salvador
For many years, repression, torture and murder were carried on in El Salvador by dictators installed and supported by the US government, a matter of no interest in the US. The story was virtually never covered. By the late 1970s, however, the government began to be concerned about a couple of things.
The triumph of anarchism - Noam Chomsky in The Hindu
Article from The Hindu, India's National Newspaper from Sunday, December 11, 2005 about Noam Chomsky and anarchism following his being awarded the title of world's most important intellectual
1988: Scenes from the Uprising - Noam Chomsky
Submitted by libcom on Dec 22 2005 11:00
Chomsky on the uprising in Palestine in 1988, with historical information and comment on Israel, Palestine, terrorism and hypocrisy first published in Z Magazine, July, 1988
Guardian withdraws Chomsky interview
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 18 2005 11:18
The Guardian has withdrawn its recent interview with Noam Chomsky from its website, after their media editor admitted it was "misrepresenting... wrong... unjustified..." and has retracted the misrepresentations made in the interview with an "unreserved apology".
The Guardian published this statement on its website:
Smearing Chomsky - The Guardian in the gutter
Submitted by libcom on Nov 5 2005 11:26
On October 31, the Guardian published an interview with Noam Chomsky by Emma Brockes, 'The greatest intellectual?' (The Guardian, October 31, 2005).
Introduction
The article was ostensibly in response to the fact that Chomsky had been voted the world's top public intellectual by Prospect magazine the previous week. Chomsky describes his treatment by the paper as "one of the most dishonest and cowardly performances I recall ever having seen in the media". (Email copied to Media Lens, November 2, 2005)
Chomsky answers Guardian
Submitted by libcom on Nov 5 2005 11:20
This is an open letter to a few of the people with whom I had discussed the Guardian interview of 31 October, on the basis of the electronic version, which is all that I had seen.
A response to the Guardian's smears:
http://libcom.org/news/article.php/chomsky-guardian-greatest-intellectual
Someone has just sent me a copy of the printed version, and I now understand why friends in England who wrote me were so outraged.
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