INTELLECTUALISM: “Jingoism, Racism, Fear, Religious Fundamentalism” / Noam Chomsky
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QUOTATION: “Empty Rhetoric” / Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D., (born December 7, 1928)
American Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Professor (Emeritus)
Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, Author, and Activist
NOAM CHOMSKY: “Obama’s Policies Are Creating Terrorism Around the World” / Laura Flanders
http://blip.tv/grittv/noam-chomsky-on-secrecy-terrorism-and-google-6604821
If ever you accused Barack Obama of fearing to offend or suffering from lack of spine, you have to hand it to him now: President Obama is acting more and more like a leader every day, one specific leader in fact: George W. Bush.
Take the recent disclosures about the National Security Agency’s massive spying on the world. The data dragnet mimics the worst of the Bush administration.
It’s hypocritical in the extreme to gather data in the name of preventing terrorism while the administration’s own policies are creating terrorism around the world, says MIT professor emeritus, Noam Chomsky in this GRITtv exclusive interview.
NDAA: Chris Hedges / “The Final Battle [Section 1021(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)]”
Over the past year I and other plaintiffs including Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg have pressed a lawsuit in the federal courts to nullify Section 1021(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This egregious section, which permits the government to use the military to detain U.S. citizens, strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely in military detention centers, could have been easily fixed by Congress. The Senate and House had the opportunity this month to include in the 2013 version of the NDAA an unequivocal statement that all U.S. citizens would be exempt from 1021(b)(2), leaving the section to apply only to foreigners. But restoring due process for citizens was something the Republicans and the Democrats, along with the White House, refused to do. The fate of some of our most basic and important rights—ones enshrined in the Bill of Rights as well as the Fourth and Fifth amendments of the Constitution—will be decided in the next few months in the courts. If the courts fail us, a gulag state will be cemented into place.
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[T]he NDAA is not about protecting us. It is about protecting the state from us.
Related articles
- Supreme Court asked to strike down NDAA’s indefinite detention clause (rt.com)
- NDAA 2013: Drones, Permanent War And Indefinite Detention Without Charge Or Trial For American Citizens On American Soil (corporatecriminalsexposed.com)
- Feinstein Amendment Doubles Down on NDAA (readersupportednews.org)
- Breaking: Congress Passes 2013 NDAA, President Obama Must Veto (amnestyusa.org)
POETRY: “From Sage to Philistine”
By Madison S. Hughes (04.11.2009)
Chomsky, Vidal, Vonnegut and Zinn
Sages of generations past.
How will their prodigious wits last?With Philistines of today
As far as the eye can see.
Oh sad, how sad, can this truly be?
Noam Chomsky: May Day
Zuccotti Park Press, a project of Adelante Alliance, a Brooklyn-based immigrant advocacy group, is releasing Occupy, a new book by Noam Chomsky, on May Day.
People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning. For example, Ronald Reagan designated what he called “Law Day” — a day of jingoist fanaticism, like an extra twist of the knife in the labor movement. Today, there is a renewed awareness, energized by the Occupy movement’s organizing, around May Day, and its relevance for reform and perhaps eventual revolution.
Always Question Authority 