I would recommend going to Alter.net and reading the full article as it also focuses on the nuclear threat that humanity faces and how we in the West have been merrily poking at the hornets nest of annihilation with a stick. The part I quoted (after the Idle No More
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Dead Wild Roses: Anarchism vs. Libertarianism – Noam Chomsky
The uniquely toxic form of libertarianism in the US and is a symptom of private power and influence run amok. This is just a snippet of the interview with Noam Chomsky, I recommend you go read the entire article on Alternet. Wilson: Why should we choose anarchy, as opposed
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Message from Noam Chomsky
As usual, Noam Chomsky addresses issues whose existence others refuse to acknowledge. Recommend this Post
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Western Backed Dictatorships – Our Energy Bread and Butter
Noam Chomsky is considered a rogue commentator in the United States. His critiques of power illustrates the gross realpolitik that runs the US government and its foreign policy. Traditionally, we tend to think of ourselves as the “good guys”. In reality though, we seldom have that role. A look
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
I am currently reading Philosophy in the Flesh: The embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought. Authored by Cognitive Scientists George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, this book asks 1) What do major lines of Western philosophical thought assume about the mind? 2) What has cognitive science learned about the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Noam Chomsky Reflects on Contemporary Education
Despite the fact that it was fraught with a marking load I would not wish on anyone, my career as an English teacher offered many satisfactions, not the least of which was the opportunity to explore issues that are increasingly considered off-limits in the classroom: contemporary politics, the use and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “Stability” – You’d be surpirsed what it trumps.
Democracy, human rights, humanitarian intervention all fall at the wayside when it comes to the West supporting “stability” in the Middle East. We wonder why the residents are so pissed off at us and cheer when bad things happen to the West. I’m guessing it has a little something
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quote of the Day – Noam Chomsky on Democracy
Just to darken your day a little – “The Obama campaign greatly impressed the public relations industry, which named Obama ‘Advertising Age’s marketer of the year for 2008,’ easily beating out Apple computers. A good predictor of the elections a few weeks later. The industry’s regular task is
Continue readingLeDaro: Noam Chomsky on Israel and Gaza – A Must Read Article
An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice Placeholder – Noam Chomsky
Sometimes you get the that feeling that your vote won’t really matter in an election. It would help if the US was actually a democracy. Filed under: Politics Tagged: America is not a Democracy, Noam Chomsky, Politics, Vote
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Course is Stayed – Win an Election, lose the Planet.
Political theatre harms us all. Issues that are important to public are marginalized while supposedly “important” issues take the spotlight. (Yes, you women, under the bus with you stat!) Noam Chomsky summarizes what elections have become in the US – “Elections are run by the public relations industry. Its primary
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: Harper gov calls Iran ‘a threat to global peace’: Chomsky on the real threat
In a move that has greatly pleased Israeli PM Netanyahu the Harper government has shut down its Iran embassy and expelled Iranian diplomats in Canada. On Sept 7 Harper’s foreign minister, John Baird, announced they had five days to leave. Baird characterized Iran as ‘a threat to global peace.’ The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Chomsky on One Minute with George Bush
Essentially, it would be for the laughs because as Chomsky explains, the Office of President is largely a ceremonial role. Filed under: Politics Tagged: American Presidents, Education, Noam Chomsky, USA
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Obama – Worse than George Bush and Blair
The overarching apparatus of state is plainly evinced by the actions of one president elected on Hope and Change. Filed under: International Affairs, Politics Tagged: International Standards, Noam Chomsky, Obama, Terrorism
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Mainstream Media’s Silencing of Important Voices
Probably two of the most important voices challenging the status quo today are rarely if ever granted access to mainstream media anymore. Both highly respected, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times journalist Chris Hedges, and Noam Chomsky, a towering intellect who has for decades been warning us of
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: Julian Assange talks with Tariq Ali and Noam Chomsky
The RT network offers content you won’t find elsewhere online. It has been accused of a pro-Kremlin bias and while there is some truth to that, it can also be a subjective evaluation. What some people view as pro-Kremlin content might be seen by someone else as coverage that offers
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Precariat – Where we are going to…
Finding a way out of the the seemingly permanent global economic crisis is going to require looking at the factors that got us there. Noam Chomsky opines that the downfall really started in the 1970′s and has been on an ever increasing spiral of ruin ever since. One of
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Video Report: Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping – The Truth May Hurt
Lester B. Pearson has been dead for four decades, but his imagined legacy, that of international peacekeeper, remains one of the defining myths of the Canadian identity. Horrified by our murderous behavior in the occupation of Afghanistan and the bombings of Libya and the former Yugoslavia, the sainted memory of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Crass Manipulation About Iran’s Nuclear Intentions
Those who believe that the public is being as crassly manipulated about Iran as it was by the lies that served as prologue to the Iraqi invasion will find two recent articles of interest. The first, entitled No defensible reasons to attack Iran, by Gwynne Dyer, pierces many of the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: ‘Losing’ the World:American Decline in Perspective
Seeing history from a different perspective is often an enlightening experience. Noam Chomsky is a excellent guide to a historical narrative that makes sense and fits the facts of the situation, as opposed to what we are told by approved sources. It is a long read, somehow sadly classified as
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