Chomsky

1990-1991: The Gulf War

Steven. — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:08:26 +0000

When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, the United Nations Security Council immediately condemned Iraq and imposed severe sanctions on it. Why was the UN response so prompt and so unprecedently firm? The US government-media alliance had a standard answer.

1989-today: The War on Drugs

Steven. — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:45:14 +0000

The war on (certain) drugs

1948-1991: US intervention and war in South East Asia

Steven. — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:43:30 +0000

The US wars in Indochina fall into the same general pattern

1940-1989: The Cold War

Steven. — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:35:26 +0000

How the Cold War worked

1986: The Iran-Contra Affair

Steven. — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:57:55 +0000

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

Steven. — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:40:05 +0000

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

Steven. — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:48:23 +0000

Making Guatemala a killing field

Guardian withdraws Chomsky interview

Steven. — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:18:55 +0000

The Guardian published this statement on its website:

Smearing Chomsky - The Guardian in the gutter

libcom — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:26:09 +0000

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

libcom — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:20:34 +0000

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.