We, the people have achieved a lot over the last centuries. But our rights are no gifts from our guardians, they were hard won. Today we live in a time of illusions, stupid entertainment and fashionable consumptions. Most people are still blinded by the media flood rather than form their own opinion. The constructive ways have to begin with an honest look in the mirror: never an easy task; always a necessary one.
Who are the victims of War? by Gino Strada
Gino Strada talking about the evolution of war and its victims. Excerpt from this talk http://www.yout... by Howard and and Gino Strada.
Noam Chomsky - Foundations of World Order
This talk from Chomsky was filmed sometime in the late 90s.
Noam Chomsky, Amy and David Goodman - Exception to the Rulers: Media in Democracy
Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics, MIT Amy Goodman, host, Democracy Now! David Goodman, reporter Tackling subjects like corporate influence over government and the deceptions of political leaders, the Goodmans explore the risks that corporate media pose to a democratic society. Where should the allegiance of the press lie, with the citizenry or the government? How are investigative reporting and independent media faring in the United States today? Amy Goodman is an internationally acclaimed journalist, recipient of the George Polk Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting. She is also host of Democracy Now!, airing on 200 radio and TV stations across the US and the world. David Goodman, Amy's brother, is an award-winning independent journalist whose articles have appeared in The Washington Post, Mother Jones, Outside, and The Nation among others. He authored most recently the acclaimed book, Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa. Noam Chomsky is one of the world's premiere experts in linguistics, philosophy and politics. Since 1965 he has been a leading critic of US foreign policy. Chomsky is currently the Institute Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This lecture was produced by Sean Effel, Cambridge Community Television (CCTV).
Noam Chomsky @ Law and Disorder
Today we're delighted to have with us Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost social critics, institute professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy and author of many books including "Failed States" and "Hegemony or Survival," but we talk with him today about his latest book "Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians." Noam Chomsky wrote "Gaza In Crisis" with Ilan Pappé, professor of history at the University of Exeter in the UK. This book surveys Israel's recent attacks on Gaza from Operation Cast Lead to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in a very sobering analysis. (December 6, 2010)
Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman and others - Massacre in East-Timor
Discussion of the Indonesian genocide in East Timor, featuring Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Allan Nairn, Benedict Anderson, Prof. Henry Steiner and Larry Dinger (and some [evil] guy from the State Department). From 1992.
Robert Fisk - The Great War for Civilisation
Robert Fisk read excerpts from his new book, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East, published by Vintage. The book covers Mr. Fisk's thirty years of reporting from the Middle East. He was interviewed by Laura Flanders about the politics, wars, and civil upheavals in the Middle East. He also responded to questions submitted by audience members. Robert Fisk was the recipient of the Lannan Foundation's 2006 Lifetime Achievement Prize for Cultural Freedom. This program of the Lannan Foundation and The Nation Institute was held at New York City Town Hall.
DATE: MAR 4, 2007
Noam Chomsky - The new War on Terror
Date: October 18, 2001 Noam Chomsky (Institute Professor; Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, MIT) Noam Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. Most recently, with Ilan Pappé he has completed Gaza in Crisis (Haymarket Books, 2010). Other examples of his prolific work include: The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory; Aspects of the Theory of Syntax; Language and Mind; American Power and the New Mandarins; Reflections on Language; Rules and Representations; Knowledge of Language; The Culture of Terrorism; Manufacturing Consent (with E.S. Herman); Understanding Power; Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance; and most recently, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World, (with David Barsamian).
Chomsky received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955. He then came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 1961 was appointed full professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. During the years 1958 to 1959 Chomsky was in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. In the spring of 1969 he delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford; in January 1970 he delivered the Bertrand Russell Memorial Lecture at Cambridge University; in 1972, the Nehru Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, and in 1977, the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, among many others.
Chomsky has received honorary degrees from universities around the world, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Science.
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