Prof. Chomsky writes the WikiLeaked Afghanistan War Logs “may contribute to the unfortunate and prevailing doctrine that wars are wrong only if they aren’t successful—rather like the Nazis felt after Stalingrad”.
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Chomsky’s Lectern: The War in Afghanistan—Echoes of Vietnam
Posted: 3 August 2010 by Noam Chomsky in Af-Pak War, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War Logs, Al Qaeda 7, al-Qaeda, CENTCOM, COIN, corporatism, counterinsurgency, David Petraeus, Douglas Pike, human rights, ISAF, Kandahar Surge, libertarian, Manufacturing Consent, Marja Surge, Middle East, necessary illusions, Newspeak, Obama, Obama Administration, Pacific Islands, propaganda model, Reinold Niebuhr, Richard Oppel, ROE, Rules of Engagement, Stanley McChrystal, US, Vietnam War, War, War on Terror, Wikileaks
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Arbitrary Government Kidnapping Under the Cloak of ‘Objectivity’
Posted: 21 June 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Abdulmutallab, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Andy Worthington, centrism, civil liberties, Department of Justice, DOJ, Eric Holder, Ezra Klein, fascism, Geneva Conventions, Glenn Greenwald, Greg Craig, Guantanamo Bay, habeas corpus, human rights, indefinite detention, intellectual class, international law, Jonathan Alter, Jonathan Bernstein, Jonathan Chait, journalism, Lanny Davis, law, liberty, Manufacturing Consent, media, Military Commissions Act, Mohamed Hassan Odaini, Newspeak, Obama, Obama Adminsitration, Pakistan, Peter Connolly, prolonged detention, propaganda, Ross Douthat, US, US Congress, War on Terror, Yemen
Chomsky’s Lectern: Manufacturing Consent — The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Video)
Posted: 19 February 2009 by Noam Chomsky in Chomsky's Lectern, International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: anarchism, anti-Statism, class, corporatism, democracy, Dewey, faith, fascism, First Amendment, free speech, human rights, international law, Iran, journalism, Latin America, liberals, Manufacturing Consent, media, Middle East, military, Niebuhr, opinion, press, propaganda, public relations, pulping, reason, religion, Rockefeller, Rushdie, terrorism, The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Trilateral Commission, US, War, WWI
In a lecture from 15 Mar 89 that’s more relevant today than ever, Prof. Chomsky provides an in-depth discussion of the “propaganda model” of “historical engineering, thought control and indoctrination” used by the “liberal intellectual class” to “feed the masses”, discussed in the book, co-authored with Ed Herman, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media — (in our opinion) one of the most, if not the most, important political science works of the modern day — followed by Q&A. (more…)