Jake Lynch, head of Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, on the importance of giving a voice to the voiceless: An eyewitness account from one of the [Sri Lankan government Tamil internment] camps is to be the centrepiece of an event we’re staging at the University of Sydney, titled, ”˜Sri Lanka’s human rights…
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Tamils aren’t real people, are they?
From TamilNet: Prof Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT, said Thursday during a United Nations forum on Responsibility to Protect (R2P), that what happened in Sri Lanka was a major Rwanda-like atrocity, in a different scale, where the West didn’t care. “There was plenty of early warning. This [conflict] has been going on…
The message to the masses
I wrote last night about seeing Noam Chomsky here in New York. The city’s Indypendent newspaper today has a fuller report on the event: Renowned leftist intellectual, linguist and author Noam Chomsky discussed democracy, the economy and global crises June 12 at Riverside Church in Harlem. Over 2,000 people attended the event, which benefited the…
Noam Chomsky at the Riverside Church in New York
I first started reading Noam Chomsky at university. His political works were sometimes dense and impenetrable, but his reasoning on Israel/Palestine, written as a Jew, moved me deeply. When I finally met him in 2005 in Boston, during the research of my first book, My Israel Question, his humility and insights caused me to consider…
Free Ezra
A message from Jewish Voice for Peace: Join Naomi Klein, Neve Gordon, Noam Chomsky and thousands of others and tell Israel not to jail Ezra Nawi, one of Israel’s most courageous human rights activists. His crime? He tried to stop a military bulldozer from destroying the homes of Palestinian Bedouins in the South Hebron region.…
This all didn’t start post 9/11
Noam Chomsky reminds us that the US has long abused citizens. The message? Don’t be so shocked about the “war on terror”: Over the past 60 years, victims worldwide have endured the CIA’s “torture paradigm,” developed at a cost that reached $1 billion annually, according to historian Alfred McCoy in his book A Question of…
How not to get easily distracted
Noam Chomsky talks in early April in the US about the CIA, Obama, Israel/Palestine and Norman Finkelstein:
The US will remain king
Noam Chomsky is asked on Democracy Now! how he sees the American empire over the next decades: Prediction in human affairs is a very low—has very little success, too many complications. The United States, I think, will come out of the economic crisis, very likely, as the dominant superpower. There’s a lot of talk about…
The empire goes on
Noam Chomsky on Democracy Now! talking about the US expansion of the Afghan occupation, the uses of NATO, and what Obama should do in Israel-Palestine:
When human rights for all is deemed impossible
The Zionist establishment is fearful of the ever-growing campaign against Israeli human rights abuses: …The facts on the Middle East ground have put Israel’s advocates in a nearly untenable position. As Yossi Klein Halevi has often pointed out, both the settlement enterprise and the Oslo effort failed to achieve their fantastic goals. Now Hamas has…