IMF, Loans, Debt, Empire, Control and Lebanon

John Perkins, the economic hitman, discusses what a debt to the IMF means.  Gives an idea of what the announced deal for Lebanon will mean.
 IMF approves $77 million emergency loan for Lebanon

Chomsky on the IMF
But that’s not the way the international system works. If a bank makes a loan to, for example, General Suharto of Indonesia [...]

Chomsky: attack on Iran and the Lebanese deadlock

The following is an extract from a Chomsky interview.  I recommend reading the full text which can be found here - http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3999
Shank: How is the political deadlock in Lebanon impacting the U.S. government’s decision to potentially go to war with Iran? Is there a relationship at all?
Chomsky: There’s a relationship. I presume part of [...]

Chavez at UN “The world is waking up against American Empire” and he promotes Chomskys book

Video of a Chavez speech at the UN, calling Bush the Devil and claiming the podium still smells of sulpher from Bushes speech the day before.  Well worth a listen.

for more see here http://fanonite.wordpress.com/2006/09/21/it-smells-of-sulphur-here/

Clash of civilizations? Noam Chomsky

On 5 November 2001, Noam Chomsky gave a lecture on ‘Militarism, Democracy and People’s Right to Information’ at a public forum convened by the National Campaign for the People’s Right to Information. During the question-answer session that followed the lecture, Chomsky was asked whether he thought that ‘the present conflict between the Taliban and the [...]

If a suicide bombers a terrorist, you have to call Israel a terrorist state

Chomsky video - newsworld
“[in the media world] truth is insignificant, its not even a value”

NOAM CHOMSKY in LEBANON - CHOOSING DIALOGUE OVER DESTRUCTION

more youtube of chomsky in Lebanon
http://www.petemccormack.com/essays016.htm 
“…the events of September 11 were a horrendous atrocity, probably the most devastating instant human toll of any crime in history, outside of war.”
—Noam Chomsky, Oct 18, 2001

 
It was halfway through the recent escalation of warfare between Hezbollah and Israel when I stumbled on a right wing website stating that [...]

Racist Western attitudes towards Arabs

The following post has a video on hollywoods vilification of arabs, a section by Chomsky on racist attitudes towards Arabs, an essay on the recent headlines about the Muhammad cartoons ending on a section about US foreign policy and “the arab mind” 
Video “Planet of the Arabs”

A trailer-esque montage spectacle of Hollywood’s relentless vilification and dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims.
Inspired [...]

Noam Chomsky: Their View of the World is Through a Bombsight

Chomsky speaks to  Dr Hesham Tillawi Vidoe
Dr Chomsky speaks to Dr. Hesham Tillawi 9/11, Israel, Palestine, Iraq and the Lebanon war watch film (49 mins)
Noam Chomsky: Their View of the World is Through a Bombsight
1 Sept 2006 | The Guardian
In Lebanon, a little-honoured truce remains in effect - yet another in a decades-long series of [...]

Chomsky: UN Security Council Acts within Constraints Set by Great Powers

The New Anatolian, August 21, 2006
UN Security Council Resolution 1701 came very late and posed a fragile ceasefire, yet there will be another war as long as the Bush-backed Israel has the pretext of “safer borders,” and Bush himself is insisting on going further in his war against terrorism.
Eminent Professor Noam Chomsky, in this interview [...]

Noam Chomsky: On the invasion of Lebanon

Al-Adab, August 19, 2006
Though there are many interacting factors, the immediate issue that lies behind the latest US-Israeli invasion of Lebanon remains, I believe, what it was in the four preceding invasions: the Israel-Palestine conflict. In the most important case, the devastating US-backed 1982 Israeli invasion was openly described in Israel as a war [...]

Chomsky backs Raytheon 9

Noam Chomsky has described the nine protesters who ‘decommissioned’ the Raytheon software plant in Derry last week as ‘wonderful’ and an inspiration. The Raytheon software plant, an integral part of the US Raytheon defence company responsible for weapons of mass destruction and a key supplier to Israel, was stormed by protesters on Friday.
Veteran socialist, Eamonn [...]

“Apocalypse Near” Palestine & Lebanon, Chomsky

Introduction to Noam Chomsky
 
Chomsky: Very informative (as always)
Apocalypse near (Part one)
08.04.2006 | ynetnews.com
Merav Yudilovitch
Following intellectuals’ letter, Prof. Noam Chomsky explains his doctrine, discusses danger of Israel’s nukes compared to ‘Iranian threat,’ global media’s role in escalating Mideast conflict and US’s place in picture
Last week, a group of renowned intellectuals published an open letter blaming Israel [...]

The Israel Lobby, U.S. Foreign Policy and the “Arab Mind”

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy 

Articles

The Israel lobby John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
The storm over the Israel lobby Michael Massing
The Israel lobby? Noam Chomsky
The Israel lobby Norman Finkelstein

“Both U.S. and Israeli elites have always believed that the Arabs need to be kept subordinate. However, once the U.S. solidified its alliance with Israel after June 1967, it began [...]

Noam Chomsky & war in Lebanon

Do you agree with the argument that Israel’s military offensive in Lebanon is “legally and morally justified?”
Noam Chomsky: The invasion itself is a serious breach of international law, and major war crimes are being committed as it proceeds. There is no legal justification.
Articles 

On Israel, Lebanon and Palestine (7th Aug 06) 
Apocalypse Near (4th Aug 06)
War crimes [...]