Haiti | Little Alex in Wonderland

His early personal exposure to anarchism and activism through people we wouldn’t today call ‘intellectuals’, but the insight of ‘everyday people’;
The crushing of liberation ventures by “fascism, Stalinism and liberal democracies” and the “miraculous sympathy and humanity” of the most brutally oppressed from Vietnam to Palestine to Southern Colombia;
His introduction to the “intellectual class” of “liberal democrat” gatekeepers during his graduate studies and its manipulation of the word “enemy” for “conquerors”, ‘radical rewrite’ of John F. Kennedy’s “legacy” to communicate him as a “dove” after the Tet Offensive, ‘liberal imperialists’ and their ‘unprincipled’ objection to the U.S. invasion of Iraq as a “strategic blunder” showing its ‘deeply rooted imperial mentality’;
The validity of the “Tea Party Movement”, the “big business community” and their love for Obama, the “owners of society” and how policy is engineered for “their interests”;
The “global shift in power” from the “workforce to multinational capital” making China a giant “assembly plant”, the financial community’s ‘rational externality’ of “systemic risk” for “institutional reasons” provided by the “Nanny State”, the “doom loop” of government bailouts that provide incentive for those in power to create “financial crises”;
The “moving” and “articulate”, though “ridiculed”, “manifesto” of terrorist Joe Stack before his suicide bombing (57:48):

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Weekend Briefing—9th-10th April 2010

Posted: 10 April 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: Afghanistan, banking, Bush Administration, censorship, China, Collateral Murder, corporatism, economy, fascism, finanical crisis, foreign aid, free press, free speech, GATA, George Bush, Gitmo, gold, GOP, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf War syndrome, Haiti, Hamid Karzai, Henry Kissinger, Hugo Chavez, human rights, IED's, international law, Iran, Israel, Joseph Conrad, Kyrgyzstan, Lech Kaczynski, libertarian, Netanyahu, New Orleans, Newspeak, North Korea, Obama Administration, Paul Krugman, Poland, police brutality, price fixing, protests, revolution, Ron Paul, Russia, SLRC, START, Thailand, torture, Turkey, US, Venesulea, War, War on Terror, whistleblowers, Wikileaks

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Daily Briefing—5th April 2010

Posted: 5 April 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: Afghanistan, AIPAC, Amazon, Amazonians, Becky Akers, catholic priests, civil liberties, civilian casualties, counterterrorism, drug war, FBI, Gerald Ford, Glenn Greenwald, Haiti, homelessness, homesteading, immigration, India, indigenous people, Indonesia, Iraq, Iraq elections, Israel, Justin Raimondo, land reform, land theft, Latin America, libertarian, marijuana, Middle East, militarism, national ID card, NATO, Obama Administration, oil, Palestine, Perenco, Peru, Philadelphia, Pope Benedict, privacy, Rachel Maddow, REAL ID, South America, suicide bombing, Syed Hashmi, US, Vatican City, Wikileaks, wiretapping

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Daily Briefing–31st March 2010

Posted: 31 March 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Alex Jones, AllanNairn, Arctic Conference, Argentina, banking, black widows, Bush Administration, Chechnya, corporate personhood, corporatism, drug war, fascism, FOX News, Gaza, Gaza Massacre, Haiti, Haiti earthquake, Hamid Karzai, healthcare, human rights, Hutaree, ICC, immigration, Indonesia, intellectual property, international law, Iran, Iraq War, Israel, JC Penney, Karl Rove, Kenya, law, Linux, military aid, militias, Moqtada al-Sadr, mutual funds, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Palestine, Palestine-Israel, Pentagon, progressives, Robert Dreyfuss, Russia, SCOTUS, SEI, Somalia, terrorism, truancy courts, UK, unemployment, Unix, US, Wal-Mart, War, war crimies, War on Terror, West Bank, Zionism

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Chomsky’s Lectern: What’s Ahead for the U.S.? (mp3)

Posted: 5 October 2009 by Noam Chomsky in Af-Pak War, Chomsky's Lectern, International Affairs, Political Science
Tags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, American Empire, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, Argentina, Bolivarian Socialism, Bolivia, Brazil, capitalism, Central America, Chile, corporate personhood, corporatism, coup d'état, democracy, economic terrorism, economy, electoral politics, Evo Morales, Haiti, Hamid Karzai, Honduras, Hugo Chavez, human rights, IMF, imperialism, Iran, Iran election, Iraq, Iraq War, Latin America, libertarian socialism, Lula de Silva, Manuel Zelaya, Matt Martin, Middle East, military coup, Monroe Doctrine, MSM, Newspeak, Nixon Administration, Noam Chomsky, NPR, NPT, nuclear weapons, OAS, Obama, Pakistan, public media, South America, UNSUR, US, US embassies, USSR, Venezuela, War, World Bank

Professor Noam Chomsky discusses his coming book—Hopes and Prospects, to be released 1 January 2010—the military coup against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, his meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, mainstream media’s “narrow criticism” of state power, U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, and the meetings between world “leaders” and Iran with Matt Martin and listeners at KALW 91.7 FM in San Fransisco (52:11):

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Chomsky’s Lectern: Coups, UNASUR and the U.S.

Posted: 5 October 2009 by Noam Chomsky in Chomsky's Lectern, International Affairs, Political Science
Tags: American Empire, Bolivarian Socialism, Bolivia, capitalism, Central America, civil rights, Civil War, climate change, Cold War, Colombia, corporatism, coup d'état, democracy, drug war, Ecuador, energy industry, Evo Morales, Gaza Massacre, global warming, Haiti, healthcare, Honduras, Hugo Chavez, human rights, imperialism, international law, Israel, Latin American, Latin American Commission on Drugs, Manuel Zelaya, militarization, NAFTA, neoliberalism, Newspeak, Noam Chomsky, OAS, oil industry, Palmerola, Phillipines, reconstruction, slavery, Soto Cano, South America, SOUTHCOM, Southeast Asia, terrorism, tobacco industry, UN, UNASUR, US, Venezuela, War, World War II

A lecture given by Professor Noam Chomsky in Caracas, Venezuela 29 August 2009 (updated September 9) on the U.S. plundering of Latin America and the corporate State.

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Breaking Away From U.S. Imperialism in Latin America (Video)

Posted: 2 August 2009 by Editors in Chomsky's Lectern, International Affairs, Political Science
Tags: Al Jazeera, ALBA, American Empire, Bolivarian Socialism, Bolivia, Brazil, BRIC, CIA, Colombia, corporatism, Cuban Missle Crisis, diplomacy, economic terrorism, economy, Ecuador, Evo Morales, facism, fascism, Fidel Castro, GATT, globalism, Haiti, Honduras, Hugo Chavez, IMF, imperialism, JFK, land reform, Latin America, Lula de Silva, majoritarian democracy, Manuel Zelaya, military coup, military junta, Monroe Doctrine, NAFTA, neoliberalism, Noam Chomsky, nuclear weapons, Obama, oil, Organization of American Stats, petrodollar, School of the Americas, socialism, terrorism, Venezuela, War, World Bank

al Jazeera’s “Empire” hosted by Marwan Bishara takes a look at the new political stage in Latin America, reacting to U.S. interventionism on behalf of corporate interests and European colonialist elitism, the differences in the approaches of Bolivarian Socialists — Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador — and the ‘Third Way’ Eastern Hemisphere economic alliances of Brazil. In Part One, Mr. Bishara interviews Prof. Noam Chomsky. Part Two is a panel of scholars.

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