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鈥官� 丕賱廿乇賴丕亘 丕賱睾乇亘賷 賲賳 賴賷乇賵卮賷賲丕 廿賱賶 丨乇賵亘 丕賱胤丕卅乇丕鬲 丕賱賲爻賷乇丞鈥�

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賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賴賵 丨氐賷賱丞 丨賵丕乇 丿丕賲 賱賲丿丞 賷賵賲賷賳 亘賷賳 丕賱賲賮賰乇 丕賱鬲賯丿賲賷 丕賱賲毓乇賵賮 賳購毓賻賵賲 鈥徹促堎呚迟冑� 賵夭賲賷賱賴 丕賳丿乇賷賴 賮賱噩賻賰貙 丕賱賲丨賱賱 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷 賵丕賱賲丨賯賯 丕賱氐丨賮賷 賵氐丕丨亘 丕賱兀賮賱丕賲 鈥徹з勝堌ж︐傎娯� 丕賱毓丿賷丿丞. 噩乇賶 丕賱丨賵丕乇 賮賷 賲丿賷賳丞 亘賵爻胤賳 賵鬲賲賾 鬲氐賵賷乇賴 賱賷賰賵賳 賮賷賱賲丕賸 賵孬丕卅賯賷丕賸..鈥� 鈥� 鈥� 賷鬲賳丕賵賱 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賯囟賷丞 賯賵丞 丕賱睾乇亘 丕賱丕爻鬲毓賲丕乇賷 賵賲丕賰賳鬲賴 丕賱廿毓賱丕賲賷丞 亘卮賰賱 禺丕氐貙 賲賳匕 賮鬲乇丞 鈥徹з勜X必ㄘ官娰嗀ж� 丨鬲賶 賷賵賲賳丕 賴匕丕. 賷鬲丨丕賵乇 丕賱賲丐賱賮丕賳 亘胤乇賷賯丞 賮賰乇賷丞 賲賲鬲毓丞 睾胤鬲 丕賱丨乇賰丞 鈥徹з勜ж池官呚ж辟娯� 賲賳匕 賳卮兀鬲賴丕 賵丕丨鬲賱丕賱賴丕 賲賳丕胤賯 睾乇亘 賳賴乇 丕賱賲爻爻亘賷 賵廿亘丕丿丞 丕賱爻賰丕賳 丕賱賲丨賱賷賷賳貙 孬賲 鈥徹з嗀焚勜з傎囏� 卮乇賯丕賸 賵睾乇亘丕賸 賵噩賳賵亘丕賸貙 賲賳 兀賮乇賷賯賷丕 廿賱賶 卮賲丕賱 卮乇賯 丌爻賷丕 孬賲 賯丕乇鬲賷 兀賲乇賷賰丕 丕賱賵爻胤賶 鈥徺堌Y呚辟娰冐� 丕賱噩賳賵亘賷丞. 賷鬲胤乇賯 丕賱丨丿賷孬 廿賱賶 賲丕 丌賱 廿賱賷賴 丕賱丨丕賱 亘毓丿 爻賯賵胤 丕賱丕鬲丨丕丿 丕賱爻賵賮賷丕鬲賷 鈥徺堌з勝呚贺з呚必ж� 丕賱毓爻賰乇賷丞 賮賷 丕賱卮乇賯 丕賱兀賵爻

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Noam Chomsky

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Avram Noam Chomsky is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s Chomsky has been an influential voice on the American left as a consistent critic of U.S. foreign policy, contemporary capitalism, and corporate influence on political institutions and the media.
Born to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia, Chomsky developed an early interest in anarchism from alternative bookstores in New York City. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania. During his postgraduate work in the Harvard Society of Fellows, Chomsky developed the theory of transformational grammar for which he earned his doctorate in 1955. That year he began teaching at MIT, and in 1957 emerged as a significant figure in linguistics with his landmark work Syntactic Structures, which played a major role in remodeling the study of language. From 1958 to 1959 Chomsky was a National Science Foundation fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. He created or co-created the universal grammar theory, the generative grammar theory, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the minimalist program. Chomsky also played a pivotal role in the decline of linguistic behaviorism, and was particularly critical of the work of B.F. Skinner.
An outspoken opponent of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, which he saw as an act of American imperialism, in 1967 Chomsky rose to national attention for his anti-war essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals". Becoming associated with the New Left, he was arrested multiple times for his activism and placed on President Richard M. Nixon's list of political opponents. While expanding his work in linguistics over subsequent decades, he also became involved in the linguistics wars. In collaboration with Edward S. Herman, Chomsky later articulated the propaganda model of media criticism in Manufacturing Consent, and worked to expose the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. His defense of unconditional freedom of speech, including that of Holocaust denial, generated significant controversy in the Faurisson affair of the 1980s. Chomsky's commentary on the Cambodian genocide and the Bosnian genocide also generated controversy. Since retiring from active teaching at MIT, he has continued his vocal political activism, including opposing the 2003 invasion of Iraq and supporting the Occupy movement. An anti-Zionist, Chomsky considers Israel's treatment of Palestinians to be worse than South African鈥搒tyle apartheid, and criticizes U.S. support for Israel.
Chomsky is widely recognized as having helped to spark the cognitive revolution in the human sciences, contributing to the development of a new cognitivistic framework for the study of language and the mind. Chomsky remains a leading critic of U.S. foreign policy, contemporary capitalism, U.S. involvement and Israel's role in the Israeli鈥揚alestinian conflict, and mass media. Chomsky and his ideas are highly influential in the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements. Since 2017, he has been Agnese Helms Haury Chair in the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona.

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I'm becoming increasingly aware of my own ignorance and internalised prejudices. Lately, I've begun the long process of analysing these feelings and considering where they've come from so that I can gradually erase them. I'm learning that much of these biases (though obviously not all) can be attributed to an overexposure to Western propaganda and media.

Western and capitalist ideals pervade everything I think I know. I'm learning that cultures and events are relentlessly misrepresented in my supposedly objective news sources. My understanding of the world is tainted. After reading this conversation, I desperately want to more easily access a wider breadth of journalists and media outlets to broaden and strengthen my understanding of history and current affairs.

This little book has inspired me to be more critical of my thoughts, and educate myself beyond what is comfortable and easy to comprehend. I cannot live my life blind and passive while the mass exploitation of people and environments carries on, silently and methodically, beyond my bubble.
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小谢械写胁邪褌 褑懈褌邪褌懈. 袩褉械写褍锌褉械卸写邪胁邪屑: 褋械褉懈芯蟹械薪 褌褉懈谐褗褉 褍芯褉薪懈薪谐 泻褗屑 胁褋械泻懈 褋 薪邪写 泻褍斜懈褔械薪 褋邪薪褌懈屑械褌褗褉 屑芯蟹褗泻.

1. 袩芯 锌芯胁芯写 锌芯褌褍褕邪胁邪薪械褌芯 薪邪 袩褉邪卸泻邪褌邪 锌褉芯谢械褌: 鈥炐⊙娦残笛傂秆傂� 薪械 懈蟹胁褗褉褕懈褏邪 薪懈泻邪泻胁懈 屑邪褋芯胁懈 褍斜懈泄褋褌胁邪. 袧褟泻芯谢泻芯 写褍褕懈 锌芯锌邪写薪邪褏邪 锌芯写 褌邪薪泻芯胁械褌械, 锌芯胁械褔械褌芯 芯褌 褋谢褍褔邪懈褌械 斜褟褏邪 蟹谢芯锌芯谢褍泻邪 鈥� 薪褟泻芯懈 芯褌 蟹邪谐懈薪邪谢懈褌械 斜褟褏邪 锌懈谢懈.鈥�
效械褏芯褋谢芯胁邪褑懈褌械 锌懈泄薪邪谢懈, 屑芯谢褟 胁懈 褋械, 锌芯胁械褔泻芯 写卸懈斜褉芯胁泻邪 懈 薪械 褖械褕 谢懈, 褋械 锌芯写褏谢褗蟹薪邪谢懈 锌芯写 褋褗胁械褌褋泻懈褌械 褌邪薪泻芯胁械...

2. 鈥炐⊙娦残笛傂秆傂� 锌芯褋褌邪胁懈褏邪 褋褌褉邪薪邪褌邪 褋懈 薪邪褔械谢芯 胁 斜芯褉斜邪褌邪 褋褉械褖褍 懈屑锌械褉懈邪谢懈蟹屑邪, 褉邪褋懈蟹屑邪 懈 写懈褋泻褉懈屑懈薪邪褑懈褟褌邪.鈥�
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3. 鈥炐曅惭€芯锌邪 泻邪褌芯 褑褟谢芯 懈褋褌芯褉懈褔械褋泻懈 械 褎邪褕懈褋褌泻邪 懈 械 锌芯泻邪蟹邪谢邪 褌芯胁邪, 泻邪褌芯 械 锌谢褟褔泻芯褋胁邪谢邪 褑褟谢邪褌邪 锌谢邪薪械褌邪 胁械泻芯胁械 薪邪褉械写, 邪 薪邪 胁褋懈褔泻芯褌芯 芯褌谐芯褉械 械 屑褗褉褌胁邪 胁 懈泻芯薪芯屑懈褔械褋泻芯 懈 泻褍谢褌褍褉薪芯 芯褌薪芯褕械薪懈械, 械写懈薪 蟹邪谢褟蟹胁邪褖 泻芯薪褌懈薪械薪褌.鈥�
袧邪褔懈 褌褍泻邪... citation needed, 写械褌芯 褋械 胁懈泻邪. 袙锌褉芯褔械屑 邪泻芯 胁褗芯斜褖械 懈屑邪褏 薪邪屑械褉械薪懈械 写邪 褋懈 芯褋褌邪胁褟 泻薪懈谐邪褌邪 薪邪 泻懈薪写褗谢邪, 褌邪泻邪 褖褟褏 写邪 锌褉械泻褉褗褋褌褟 褑褟谢邪褌邪 褌邪蟹懈 邪斜芯屑懈薪邪褑懈褟. Citation needed: the book.
袩褗褉胁芯, 褎邪褕懈蟹屑褗褌 泻邪褌芯 懈写械芯谢芯谐懈褟 胁褗蟹薪懈泻胁邪 芯泻芯谢芯 袩褗褉胁邪褌邪 褋胁械褌芯胁薪邪 鈥� 锌芯 褌芯胁邪 胁褉械屑械 袝胁褉芯锌邪 (懈谢懈 锌芯-褋泻芯褉芯 锌械褌褌械 薪邪 泻褉褗褋褌 械胁褉芯锌械泄褋泻懈 褋褌褉邪薪懈, 蟹邪 泻芯懈褌芯 褌芯胁邪 褋械 芯褌薪邪褋褟) 芯斜褖芯 胁蟹械褌芯 褋械 械 薪邪锌谢褟褔泻芯褋胁邪谢邪 (褋 懈蟹泻谢褞褔械薪懈械 屑芯卸械 斜懈 薪邪 肖褉邪薪褑懈褟, 泻芯褟褌芯 褌械薪写械薪褑懈芯蟹薪芯 褋懈 械 锌芯-斜邪胁薪懈褔泻邪). 孝邪泻邪 褔械 泻芯屑械薪褌邪褉褗褌 械, 薪邪泄-屑邪谢泻芯褌芯, 褏褉芯薪芯谢芯谐懈褔械褋泻懈 芯蟹邪写邪褔邪胁邪褖. 效械 袝胁褉芯锌邪 械 屑褗褉褌胁邪 胁 懈泻芯薪芯屑懈褔械褋泻芯 芯褌薪芯褕械薪懈械... 屑泻械泄, 写芯薪褟泻褗写械 械 胁褟褉薪芯, 屑邪泻邪褉 褔械 褋懈褌褍邪褑懈褟褌邪 胁邪褉懈褉邪 芯褌 写褗褉卸邪胁邪 写芯 写褗褉卸邪胁邪. 袣褉邪谢褋褌胁芯褌芯, 肖褉邪薪褑懈褟, 袚械褉屑邪薪懈褟, 褋泻邪薪写懈薪邪胁褋泻懈褌械 褋褌褉邪薪懈 懈 楔胁械泄褑邪褉懈褟 斜懈褏 泻邪蟹邪谢邪, 褔械 褋械 芯锌褉邪胁褟褌 胁褋械 薪褟泻邪泻. 袗 泻芯屑械薪褌邪褉褗褌, 褔械 鈥炐曅惭€芯锌邪 械 屑褗褉褌胁邪 胁 泻褍谢褌褍褉薪芯 芯褌薪芯褕械薪懈械鈥�... 袧械 蟹薪邪屑 写邪谢懈 写邪 锌褉械写谢芯卸邪 薪邪 谐芯褋锌芯写邪褌邪 薪芯屑械褉懈褉邪薪 褋锌懈褋褗泻 褋 胁褋懈褔泻懈 锌芯泻邪蟹邪褌械谢懈, 褋锌芯褉械写 泻芯懈褌芯 褌芯胁邪 械 褔懈褋褌邪 谢褗卸邪, 懈谢懈 锌褉芯褋褌芯 写邪 懈屑 褍褋谢褍卸邪 褋 褉械褔薪懈泻, 蟹邪 褍写芯斜褋褌胁芯 芯褌谐褗褉薪邪褌 薪邪 写械褎懈薪懈褑懈褟褌邪 蟹邪 鈥炐貉冃谎傃冄€邪鈥�.

4. 鈥�...写芯 懈蟹胁械褋褌薪邪 褋褌械锌械薪 胁 袘褗谢谐邪褉懈褟 懈屑邪 谐芯谢褟屑邪 薪芯褋褌邪谢谐懈褟 锌芯 泻芯屑褍薪懈蟹屑邪.鈥�
袗啸袗啸啸袗啸袗啸袗啸袗啸啸袗啸袗啸袗啸袗啸袗啸. 袗泄写械 薪械?

5. 鈥炐π敌恍秆傂� 薪邪 小小小袪 斜褟褏邪 胁褗蟹胁懈褕械薪懈 懈 薪褟泻芯懈 芯褌 褌褟褏 屑薪芯谐芯 胁锌械褔邪褌谢褟胁邪褖懈 鈥� 褋胁芯斜芯写邪 蟹邪 胁褋懈褔泻懈 斜械写薪懈 锌芯 褋胁械褌邪, 邪薪褌懈泻芯谢芯薪懈邪谢懈蟹褗屑, 邪薪褌懈懈屑锌械褉懈邪谢懈蟹褗屑, 褋芯褑懈邪谢薪邪 褋锌褉邪胁械写谢懈胁芯褋褌. 袠薪褌械褉械褋薪芯 械, 褔械 写薪械褋 泻邪泻褌芯 褋褌邪褉懈褌械, 褌邪泻邪 懈 屑谢邪写懈褌械, 薪械锌褉械泻褗褋薪邪褌芯 褋谢褍褕邪褌 褋褌邪褉懈 褋褗胁械褌褋泻懈 褕谢邪谐械褉懈.鈥�
袠薪褌械褉械褋薪芯褌芯 械, 褔械 褌邪蟹懈 胁薪械蟹邪锌薪邪 transition 械 薪邪泄-屑邪谢泻芯 斜械蟹褍屑薪芯褌芯 薪械褖芯 胁 褌芯胁邪 懈蟹泻邪蟹胁邪薪械. 袗谢谢邪 袩褍谐邪褔芯胁邪 蟹邪 懈薪褌械褉褋械泻褑懈芯薪邪谢械薪 褎械屑懈薪懈蟹褗屑!

6. 鈥炐樞葱笛徰傂� 褌芯褌邪谢薪芯 写邪 褋械 芯褌褏胁褗褉谢褟褌 褋褗胁械褌褋泻邪褌邪 懈谢懈 写褉褍谐懈褌械 泻芯屑褍薪懈褋褌懈褔械褋泻懈 褋懈褋褌械屑懈 械写懈薪褋褌胁械薪芯 胁褗蟹 芯褋薪芯胁邪 薪邪 屑邪褋芯胁懈褌械 褍斜懈泄褋褌胁邪, 懈蟹胁褗褉褕械薪懈 锌褉械蟹 褌芯胁邪 胁褉械屑械, 斜懈 芯蟹薪邪褔邪胁邪谢芯 写邪 蟹邪泻谢械泄屑懈屑 泻邪褌芯 薪械褔芯胁械褕泻懈 懈 锌褉芯胁械卸写邪褖懈 谐械薪芯褑懈写 泻芯薪褋褌懈褌褍褑懈芯薪薪懈褌械 屑芯薪邪褉褏懈懈 懈 屑薪芯谐芯锌邪褉褌懈泄薪懈褌械 蟹邪锌邪写薪懈 写械屑芯泻褉邪褑懈懈.鈥�
袧械, 薪懈泻芯泄 薪械 谐懈 芯褌褏胁褗褉谢褟 械写懈薪褋褌胁械薪芯 胁褗蟹 芯褋薪芯胁邪 薪邪 褌芯胁邪.
袧械, 薪械 芯蟹薪邪褔邪胁邪.
小芯褉懈, 锌懈褔, 锌褉芯斜胁邪泄 锌邪泻.

7. 鈥炐愌勑承靶叫秆佈傂靶� 锌芯 胁褉械屑械褌芯 薪邪 小褗胁械褌褋泻懈褟 褋褗褞蟹 (...) 斜械 械写懈薪褋褌胁械薪懈褟褌 锌械褉懈芯写, 泻芯谐邪褌芯 胁 褋褌褉邪薪邪褌邪 懈屑邪褕械 薪褟泻邪泻胁邪 薪邪写械卸写邪.鈥�
袛芯谐邪写懈 屑懈 褋械.

8. 鈥炐氀冃毙� 懈蟹懈谐褉邪 芯谐褉芯屑薪邪 褉芯谢褟 胁 芯褋胁芯斜芯卸写械薪懈械褌芯 薪邪 袗褎褉懈泻邪 (...) 效械 袚械胁邪褉邪 写芯胁械写械 褑褟谢 泻芯薪褌懈薪谐械薪褌 褔械褉薪芯泻芯卸懈 泻褍斜懈薪褋泻懈 胁芯泄薪懈褑懈 写邪 褋械 褋褉邪卸邪胁邪褌 蟹邪 芯褋胁芯斜芯卸写械薪懈械褌芯 薪邪 袣芯薪谐芯.鈥�
效械 袚械胁邪褉邪, 褔芯胁械泻... 袨泻械泄, 褋谢械写 胁褋懈褔泻芯 写芯褌褍泻 锌褉械写锌芯谢邪谐邪屑 械 谢芯谐懈褔薪芯 邪胁褌芯褉懈褌械 写邪 褋械 锌褉械褏谢邪褋胁邪褌 锌芯 薪械谐芯, 褋邪屑芯 褔械 薪邪屑懈褉邪屑 蟹邪 锌褉芯褟胁邪 薪邪 懈薪褌械谢械泻褌褍邪谢薪邪 薪械懈褋泻褉械薪芯褋褌 褎邪泻褌邪, 褔械 锌褉懈 胁褋褟泻芯 褋锌芯屑械薪邪胁邪薪械 薪邪 效褗褉褔懈谢 褋械 谐芯胁芯褉懈 泻邪泻褗胁 械 褉邪褋懈褋褌 (泻芯械褌芯 械 褎邪泻褌, 泻芯泄褌芯 薪械 斜懈胁邪 写邪 褋械 锌褉械屑褗谢褔邪胁邪, 薪芯 薪械 械 胁 褌芯胁邪 胁褗锌褉芯褋褗褌), 邪 胁 褋褗褖芯褌芯 胁褉械屑械 褍写芯斜薪芯 褋械 蟹邪斜褉邪胁褟 谐谢邪胁芯蟹邪屑邪泄胁邪褖懈褟褌 褉邪褋懈蟹褗屑 (褔械 懈 褏芯屑芯褎芯斜懈褟) 薪邪 效械 袚械胁邪褉邪. 袧芯 褋褗屑 褕芯泻懈褉邪薪邪, 斜械蟹 写邪 褋褗屑 懈蟹薪械薪邪写邪薪邪, 泻邪泻褌芯 褋械 泻邪蟹胁邪.

9. 袘邪褉邪泻 袨斜邪屑邪 褋械 芯斜胁懈薪褟胁邪, 褔械 写械褌褋泻懈褌械 屑褍 褋锌芯屑械薪懈 芯褌 袠薪写芯薪械蟹懈褟 褋谢械写 锌褉械胁褉邪褌邪 1965-褌邪 谐芯写懈薪邪 斜懈谢懈 褖邪褋褌谢懈胁懈. 小谢械写 褋锌褉邪胁泻邪, 袨斜邪屑邪 械 褉芯写械薪 1961-胁邪, 褌芯械褋褌 械 斜懈谢 薪邪 褔械褌懈褉懈. 肖邪泻褌, 泻芯泄褌芯 薪械 褌褉芯谐胁邪 袙谢褗褔械泻: 鈥�...写芯褉懈 写械褑邪褌邪 斜懈 褌褉褟斜胁邪谢芯 写邪 蟹薪邪褟褌. 啸芯褉邪 懈蟹褔械蟹胁邪谢懈 锌芯胁褋械屑械褋褌薪芯. 袧械 屑芯卸械 写邪 薪械 褋械 蟹邪斜械谢械卸懈.鈥�
袛芯泻邪蟹邪褌械谢褋褌胁芯 蟹邪 蟹邪锌邪写械薪 褌械褉芯褉懈蟹褗屑 薪邪 胁邪褕械褌芯 胁薪懈屑邪薪懈械: 薪褟泻芯泄 褋懈 褋锌芯屑薪褟 褋 薪芯褋褌邪谐懈褟 蟹邪 写械褌褋褌胁芯褌芯 褋懈... 袧邪 11-褌懈 褋械锌褌械屑胁褉懈 2001 斜褟褏 褋褍锌械褉 褖邪褋褌谢懈胁邪, 蟹邪褖芯褌芯 褖褟褏 写邪 胁谢懈蟹邪屑 胁 锌褗褉胁懈 泻谢邪褋 (写芯褉懈 薪械 锌芯屑薪褟 写邪谢懈 褋褗屑 蟹薪邪械谢邪 泻邪泻胁芯 械 小袗些). 效褍写褟 褋械 写邪谢懈 胁械写薪邪谐邪 写邪 褋械 锌褉械写邪胁邪屑 胁 锌芯谢懈褑懈褟褌邪 蟹邪 褋褗褍褔邪褋褌薪懈泻 胁 褌械褉芯褉懈褋褌懈褔薪懈褟 邪泻褌, 懈谢懈 锌褉芯褋褌芯 写邪 褋械 薪邪锌懈褟, 褋谢褍褕邪泄泻懈 褋褗胁械褌褋泻懈 褕谢邪谐械褉懈, 懈 写邪 芯褌懈写邪 胁 薪褟泻芯褟 芯褌 褋胁芯斜芯写薪懈褌械 薪械蟹邪锌邪写薪懈 褋褌褉邪薪懈, 泻芯懈褌芯 邪胁褌芯褉懈褌械 褋 褌邪泻邪胁邪 谢褞斜芯胁 薪邪褉懈褔邪褌 鈥炑呇冃夹靶叫秆佈傂秆囆叫� 褋褗锌褉芯褌懈胁邪鈥� 鈥� 褌芯 芯褋褌邪薪邪谢芯褌芯 褖械 写芯泄写械 芯褌 褋邪屑芯 褋械斜械 褋懈.

袙 蟹邪泻谢褞褔械薪懈械 懈屑邪屑 写邪 写芯斜邪胁褟 薪褟泻芯谢泻芯 褉邪蟹锌懈谢械薪懈 屑懈褋谢懈.
袩褗褉胁芯, 蟹邪斜械谢褟蟹邪谢邪 褋褗屑, 褔械 屑薪芯谐芯 褏芯褉邪 褋褌邪胁邪褌 写械褎械薪蟹懈胁薪懈, 褖芯屑 褋械 褋锌芯屑械薪邪褌 锌褉械褋褌褗锌谢械薪懈褟褌邪 薪邪 蟹邪锌邪写薪懈褟 褋胁褟褌. 袩芯薪械卸械 袟邪锌邪写褗褌 (袝胁褉芯锌邪 + 小袗些) 褋械 胁芯写懈 薪邪泄-写械屑芯泻褉邪褌懈褔薪邪褌邪 褔邪褋褌 芯褌 褋胁械褌邪, 胁褋褟泻邪 泻褉懈褌懈泻邪 褋褉械褖褍 薪械谐芯 褋械 锌褉懈械屑邪 蟹邪 胁懈写 懈薪褌械褉薪邪谢懈蟹懈褉邪薪 褕芯胁懈薪懈蟹褗屑. 袧邪 褌芯胁邪 屑芯谐邪 写邪 芯褌谐芯胁芯褉褟 械写懈薪褋褌胁械薪芯 褋: 褗-褗, 锌芯褉邪褋薪械褌械. 袗泻芯 褋械 芯泻邪卸械, 褔械 褋懈薪褗褌 胁懈 褌芯褉屑芯蟹懈 芯褔懈谢邪褌芯褌芯 锌褍褏泻邪胁芯 褏谢邪锌械 胁 泻谢邪褋邪, 写邪 芯褌胁褗褉薪械褌械 薪邪 褌芯胁邪 褋 鈥炐葱�, 邪屑邪 锌芯薪械 械 芯褌谢懈褔薪懈泻鈥� 薪械 胁懈 锌褉械胁褉褗褖邪 胁 锌芯-写芯斜褗褉 褉芯写懈褌械谢, 邪屑懈 胁 锌芯-谢芯褕.
袟邪锌邪写褗褌 褌褉褟斜胁邪 写邪 褋械 泻褉懈褌懈泻褍胁邪, 锌芯薪械卸械: 1) 懈屑邪 蟹邪褖芯; 2) 褉邪蟹锌芯谢邪谐邪 褋 懈薪褌械谢械泻褌褍邪谢薪懈褌械, 懈泻芯薪芯屑懈褔械褋泻懈 懈 屑芯褉邪谢薪懈 褉械褋褍褉褋懈 写邪 械 锌芯-写芯斜褗褉; 3) 屑芯卸械屑 (锌芯谢芯卸械薪懈械, 泻芯械褌芯 薪械 褋械 芯褌薪邪褋褟 蟹邪 写褉褍谐懈 泻褉邪懈褖邪 薪邪 褋胁械褌邪 鈥� 芯褋胁械薪 褋懈谐褍褉薪芯 蟹邪 袣懈褌邪泄, 袗啸袗啸啸袗啸袗啸袗啸袗啸袗).
袠薪邪褔械 邪胁褌芯褉懈褌械 褋邪 褌芯谢泻芯胁邪 蟹邪械褌懈 写邪 褏胁邪谢褟褌 泻芯屑褍薪懈蟹屑邪 薪邪 褋褗锌褉芯褌懈胁邪褌邪, 褔械 蟹邪斜褉邪胁褟褌 写邪:
芯锌懈褕邪褌 泻芯谢芯薪懈蟹邪褌芯褉褋泻懈褌械 卸懈胁芯褌懈薪褋褌胁邪 (胁 袗屑械褉懈泻懈褌械, 胁 袗褎褉懈泻邪 懈 胁 袗蟹懈褟);
芯锌懈褕邪褌 邪锌邪褉褌械泄写邪 胁 挟卸薪邪 袗褎褉懈泻邪 (褋锌芯屑械薪邪褌 械 薪邪 薪褟泻芯谢泻芯 锌褗褌懈 泻邪褌芯 褎邪泻褌 鈥� 懈屑邪 谐芯, 邪屑邪 泻邪泻胁芯 芯褌 褌芯胁邪);
锌褉懈写褉褍卸邪褌 褋 薪邪褍褔薪芯懈褋褌芯褉懈褔械褋泻懈 胁邪谢懈写薪懈 写邪薪薪懈 邪屑械褉懈泻邪薪褋泻懈褌械 褍卸邪褋懈 胁 袘谢懈蟹泻懈褟 懈蟹褌芯泻 懈 挟卸薪邪 袗屑械褉懈泻邪 锌褉械蟹 锌芯褋谢械写薪懈褌械 褋褌芯 谐芯写懈薪懈 (泻褗写械褌芯 褌械 褋邪 褋锌芯屑械薪邪褌懈, 芯谐褉邪薪懈褔械薪懈 褋邪 写芯 鈥炐夹拘� 锌褉懈褟褌械谢/泻芯谢械谐邪/褋褌褍写械薪褌 屑懈 泻邪蟹邪, 褔械鈥� 懈谢懈 写芯 写懈褉械泻褌薪芯 褏胁褗褉谢褟薪械 薪邪 芯斜胁懈薪械薪懈褟, 蟹邪 泻芯懈褌芯 懈屑邪褌 薪邪谐谢芯褋褌褌邪 写邪 泻邪卸邪褌, 褔械 (锌械褉懈褎褉邪蟹邪, 薪械 屑懈 褋械 褌褗褉褋懈 写芯褋谢芯胁薪芯褌芯) 鈥炑佈娦毙秆傂秆徰傂� 褋邪 褌胁褗褉写械 褋泻芯褉芯褕薪懈 懈 胁褋械 芯褖械 薪褟屑邪 懈褋褌芯褉懈褔械褋泻懈 写芯泻邪蟹邪褌械谢褋褌胁邪鈥�... 褗-褗-褗-褗....?!);
写邪 褋锌芯屑械薪邪褌 锌芯褋谢械写懈褑懈褌械 芯褌 薪邪褑懈蟹屑邪 懈 褎邪褕懈蟹屑邪... 泻芯谢泻芯褌芯 懈 写邪 械 褋褌褉邪薪薪芯.
袙懈械褌薪邪屑 懈 携锌芯薪懈褟 褋邪 褋锌芯屑械薪邪褌懈, 薪芯 薪褟泻邪泻 锌芯胁褗褉褏薪芯褋褌薪芯 懈 锌邪泻 褋 锌褋械胁写芯褎邪泻褌懈, 泻芯懈褌芯 褋械 芯褔邪泻胁邪 写邪 斜褗写邪褌 锌褉懈械褌懈 薪邪 写芯胁械褉懈械.
袟邪锌邪写褗褌 褌褉褟斜胁邪 写邪 褋械 泻褉懈褌懈泻褍胁邪, 薪芯... 褌芯胁邪 薪械 械 泻薪懈谐邪, 泻芯褟褌芯 褍褋锌褟胁邪 胁 薪邪褔懈薪邪薪懈械褌芯.
袨斜褉褗褖邪屑 褋锌械褑懈邪谢薪芯 胁薪懈屑邪薪懈械 薪邪 蟹邪谐谢邪胁懈械褌芯: 鈥炐椥靶啃靶葱叫秆徰� 褌械褉芯褉懈蟹褗屑: 芯褌 啸懈褉芯褕懈屑邪 写芯 写褉芯薪芯胁械褌械鈥�. 袦邪薪懈锌褍谢邪褌懈胁薪芯 懈 锌芯写胁械卸写邪褖芯. 袙 褉邪蟹谐芯胁芯褉邪 薪邪 效芯屑褋泻懈 懈 袙谢褗褔械泻 褌械屑邪褌邪 蟹邪 啸懈褉芯褕懈屑邪 薪械 褋械 蟹邪褋褟谐邪, 邪 写褉芯薪芯胁械褌械 褋邪 褋锌芯屑械薪邪褌懈 褋邪屑芯 胁械写薪褗卸: 泻邪褌芯 鈥炐啃狙佇恍敌葱叫秆傂� 褍卸邪褋薪懈 芯褉褗卸懈褟鈥�. 小邪屑邪褌邪 写褍屑邪 啸懈褉芯褕懈屑邪 械 懈蟹锌芯谢蟹胁邪薪邪 褔械褌懈褉懈 (!) 锌褗褌懈 胁 褑械谢懈褟 褌械泻褋褌: 胁械写薪褗卸 胁 蟹邪谐谢邪胁懈械褌芯, 胁械写薪褗卸 胁 褍胁芯写邪 泻邪褌芯 锌褉械锌褉邪褌泻邪 泻褗屑 蟹邪谐谢邪胁懈械褌芯, 胁械写薪褗卸 蟹邪 褋褉邪胁薪械薪懈械 (褔械 褉邪写懈邪褑懈褟褌邪 胁褗胁 肖邪谢褍写卸邪 斜懈谢邪 泻芯谢泻芯褌芯 褌邪屑) 懈 胁械写薪褗卸 胁 褏褉芯薪芯谢芯谐懈褟褌邪 薪邪泻褉邪褟 (泻芯褟褌芯 斜械褕械 械写懈薪褋褌胁械薪芯褌芯 褋褌芯泄薪芯褋褌薪芯 薪械褖芯 芯褌 褑褟谢邪褌邪 锌谢褟胁邪, 屑芯卸械 斜懈 蟹邪褖芯褌芯 薪懈褌芯 械写懈薪 芯褌 写胁邪屑邪褌邪 邪胁褌芯褉懈 薪褟屑邪褕械 写褍屑邪褌邪).

袨褏, 褟写芯褋邪褏 褋械 褋邪屑芯 写芯泻邪褌芯 锌懈褕械褏 褉械胁褞褌芯 懈 褋懈 锌褉懈锌芯屑薪褟褏. 袨褌懈胁邪屑 写邪 谐邪胁褉褗褌薪邪 械写薪芯 胁懈薪芯, 褔械 写邪 褋械 褍褋锌芯泻芯褟, 写邪薪芯 薪械 蟹邪谢懈褌薪邪 锌芯写 薪褟泻芯泄 褌邪薪泻 薪邪 小褗锌褉芯褌懈胁邪褌邪...
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February 15, 2014
I was really expecting more from this book. The conversation-transcript style doesn't do much for the content; their spoken words were obviously edited, so why couldn't they also add in some footnotes? Some post-conversation citations? I felt like Chomsky and Vltchek were talking a lot but saying little. And the pretentious tone of "We're the only ones who know how shitty things are" really bothered me, especially considering that the target audience of this book are probably people who are aware of post-WWII/post-colonial problems across the globe. Additionally, though I agree that the West has done horrible things across the globe, I don't consider people in Indonesia or Chile or Somalia as "unpeople," and overall, I was offended by how stupid Chomsky and Vltchek assumed their readers would be.

I also couldn't follow their jumps across time and space; I felt that they were making connections without explaining the links. Rather than learning much of anything by their examples, I was just trying to follow their seemingly arbitrary jumps from one subject to another. I really wanted to like this book, but I was not impressed.
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April 4, 2016
Andr茅 Vltchek opens his book with a very sad figure: more then 50 million people died around the world as a consequence of Western colonialism and neocolonialism. This terrible reality has been, somehow, "accepted" in the Western world; Noam Chomsky borrows the expression of 鈥渦npeople鈥� by George Orwell : the world is divided by people like us and 鈥渦npeople鈥�- everyone else who do not matter and we are not concerned to what happens to them.

Most of the book is developed over the issue of misinformation in the Western world. I found the arguments by the two authors extremely valuable. We should read and view non-Western sources to have a better understanding of history and the state of current global affairs, while our mainstream information is one-sided and, Chomsky and Vltcheck argue, serves as propaganda to our political establishment. There are plenty of very interesting examples over this topic. For instance, Western misinformation targets mainly countries that have refused to succumb to our dictate. That is why China keeps being vilified while India, one of the most terrible countries in the world, according to Vltcheck, is celebrated as the biggest democracy forgetting all the atrocities perpetrated there every day (see also the question of Tibet and Kashmir, how differently they are treated by Western media). And, of course, the whole narration on colonialism.

However, I found Vltcheck much more radical than Chomsky and while I cannot verify the parts over South East Asia or Latin America, I must say that when he praises China as a place where he can enjoy more freedom of expression than the UK (CCTV vs. BBC) I believe he goes too far. I live here and, Mr. Vltcheck, your website is censored! I cannot open it. Of course, along with so many other websites. The journalist illustrates how Western media serve the political establishment, but he pushes too far when he says that Iran, Turkey or China run more unedited or uncensored pieces than Western mainstream media outlets. Again, I do not know about Turkey or Iran, but from my experience living in China for several years I am not sure Chinese are really luckier in accessing more reliable pieces of information. My point is: stating that the West is also a victim of propaganda鈥� I totally agree as there are solid arguments about that. But saying that censorship in China is milder than the Western media is showing, that is making misinformation. The whole description of China by Vltcheck is quite rosey and makes me taking with a pinch of salt what else he writes during the book.

I believe that a discussion on these topics (about how much misinformed we are, also in Europe even though we love to think the opposite!) is so much needed, but I did not always enjoy the absolute tones of Vltchek. While I found eye-opening, as always, the intervention of Chomsky.
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August 3, 2017
I鈥檓 a fan of much of Chomsky鈥檚 work and there are many well developed insights here, Chomsky makes plenty of fine and salient points like, 鈥淭he idea that the US is opposed to radical Islam is ludicrous. The most extreme fundamentalist Islamic state in the world is Saudi Arabia, which is the US鈥檚 favourite.鈥� Saying how they also choose to turn a blind eye to all the terrorists groups they have been bankrolling for years like Wahhabism. Both of them speak well on Britain and the US's shameful history and meddling in the Middle East, in Iran, Iraq and Israel, including Churchill eagerness to use gas on innocent civilians and children. They also speak well on the German exploits and mass killings and camps in places like Namibia and Patagonia.

They bring the US government to task on their law making, like how in 2002 the US signed the Hague Invasion Act that safeguards it from being prosecuted in any international court of which the US is not a member, or 鈥淲hen the United States signed the Genocide Convention after 40 years it had a reservation saying it was 鈥業napplicable to the United States鈥欌€� These are just some of the many rules and exemptions the US has made up for itself so it can act with impunity.

Chomsky and Vltchek touch on many interesting subjects from many varied places around the world, from the devastating legacy of Colon in Panama, after US forces intervention over 25 years ago to the ridiculous nature of the so called 鈥渨ar on drugs鈥� that creates more misery than it stops. Or what about the story Chomsky tells of a call he got from a friend at the ABC TV network in 1986, telling him to watch the 7 o鈥� clock news that night. He did and discovered that the networks were showing the live bombing of Libya. The US forces had timed the bombing for prime time TV.

I have never read Vltchek before, for large parts here, he comes across like some overbearing, loudmouth backpacker from two tables down at a bar, who can鈥檛 shut up about all the countries he鈥檚 visited and how he now knows everything about everything. He says, 鈥淎fter living on all the continents of the world, I actually believe that the 鈥榃esterners鈥� are the most indoctrinated, the least informed and critical group of people anywhere on earth, with some exceptions, like Saudi Arabia.鈥� I am a little confused, does this mean he believes Westerners to be the most indoctrinated or does he think the Saudis?...It cannot be both. It's this sort of scattergun approach that makes this come across like a badly photocopied, student pamphlet at times.

Aside from the smug arrogance that often fills the air, what is also apparent is the total absence of reason or balance, this is why so often people on the left get such bad press, when you get this strain of extreme ranting. There is no shortage of arrogant scoffing and ridiculing of western media about their mis-reporting, bias and inaccurate figures, which made me laugh when I saw both of them being repeatedly guilty of doing exactly the same thing.

At one point Vltchek says, 鈥淭here is no doubt that more people were murdered during the US bombing campaigns of the Cambodian countryside than by Khmer Rouge actions.鈥� Where did he get this idea from?...More importantly where is his evidence?...and where are the million plus bodies hiding?...It鈥檚 absolute rubbish. Chomsky claims the estimate between 25 to 30 million people were killed in Mao鈥檚 famine, when in actual fact according to Prof Frank Dikotter鈥檚 in 鈥淢ao鈥檚 Great Famine鈥� (published two years before this interview took place) at least 45 million perished.

The way China is spoken of here, you would think that they were discussing some edifying utopia. Both of them mention a handful of instances where they happened to avoid censorship in the Iranian and Chinese media and this is somehow conflated into these places being more open than in the west?...Vltchek insists, 鈥淚 felt much freer in Beijing than when the BBC interviews me, because the BBC doesn鈥檛 even let me speak, without demanding a full account of what exactly I am intending to say.鈥� This turns out to be based on one, isolated incident, he later talks about which has clearly left him bitter and so because the BBC didn鈥檛 let him speak and China did we are supposed to equate that with China being more open and free.

He expands, 鈥淚 find China an amazing place and I also find it a very interesting model that works very well, at least for them.鈥� Who is them?... What about the likes of Harry Wu, Liu Xiaobo and Ai Weiwei, this is to name but a tiny example of China鈥檚 victims of appalling oppression and imprisonment. No mention of Falun Gong and the harvesting of organs, no hint of the appalling pollution that devastates the health of millions and kills at least hundreds of thousands a year. What about Tibet?...He doesn鈥檛 talk of the genocide going on in Uyghuristan, or China鈥檚 oppression and intimidation in the likes of Hong Kong and Taiwan. I also didn鈥檛 hear much being said about the millions of displaced people who made way for this 鈥減rogress鈥�. Or are all those deaths, imprisonments and forms of torture and repression just down to western propaganda?...

For someone so concerned and upset about various European colonies around the globe, he suddenly gets all forgiving and forgetful when it comes to China鈥檚 current expansionism and empire building. He lays almost all the blame of the Congo wars at the feet of European/American business interest, but he doesn鈥檛 acknowledge China鈥檚 bold and surreptitious influence on the region too, not just in that area, but throughout much of Africa and beyond in places like Myanmar and Papua New Guinea, where their greed for resources and wealth, polluting of the environment and appalling treatment of locals, has made lasting damage. He certainly makes no mention of the fact that China is also the world鈥檚 biggest importers of illegal timber either.

The love bombing for blatantly oppressed countries becomes nauseating, the pair turn the love beams onto Soviet era communism and they manage to discuss the Eastern bloc without once mentioning the elephant in the room, that is East Germany, which remains possibly the most heavily surveillanced and oppressive nation to have ever existed. Instead Chomsky insists, 鈥淚n the post-Stalin era, East Europe鈥檚 repression was mild, In fact it鈥檚 kind of striking but the Soviet Union actually subsidized Eastern Europe so that it ended up richer than Russia.鈥� Though later Chomsky contradicts himself, 鈥淐eausescu who was the worst of the communist dictators but the darling of the West.鈥� They draw a handful of first-hand accounts together from people in Afghanistan and try and equate Russia's invasion as being positive for the Afghans.

They have a lot of love for Cuba too, particularly the doctors and culture. Castro did a vast amount of good in certain areas, but he also lied repeatedly breaking his promises of bringing liberty and free elections to Cuba, and so effectively what they are doing is praising and fawning over an established 50 year dictatorship. At no point do they acknowledge this and I would like to know what the thousands of Cuban boat people/refugees who risked their lives to flee Cuba would think of their homeland鈥檚 health and culture.

On a lighter note, it did make me laugh when Chomsky admitted to having never heard of the word 鈥渃oncision鈥� before. Yep, I thought, that would make sense. So overall, I would say I enjoyed large parts of this book and there is a lot of interesting stuff in here and much that I agree with and there were times when I got really engaged with the line of debate, learning along the way, but too often plain silliness and crass over simplification got in the way.
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February 3, 2015
When I first started reading this book, I was shocked. The book claims that western terrorism has killed more than 50 million people and it quotes several historical examples which I was unaware of. I have always believed that the world is grey rather than black or white, but is the world , dominated by capitalism and liberalism ,so biased as to actually omit all these information. But when I reached pages describing India, I was relieved . The book describes India as a failed state, and as a sad place, dominated by religious and social hatred. I am an Indian, and I can state with conviction that nothing can be farther than truth. Yes, there is poverty, and vestiges of old social system, but it is on the path of development and recovery, and general mood is of optimism Thus, I think, most of other examples too, like Indian example, are plain hyperbole. They are informed by an ideology, which has warped the actual truth. Having said this, yes, it arouses curiosity to actually find the truth regarding western terrorism.
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June 30, 2017
Even if you don't take action, even if you're a non-believer, it is absolutely for one's best interest to be informed and to be educated.
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January 26, 2025
鈥淲e are moving toward what may be the ultimate genocide 鈥� the destruction of the environment 鈥ut nothing (is discussed in Mainstream Media) about the question of what the world is going to look like in a hundred years if we proceed with this. That is not discussed.鈥�

Fun Facts: 鈥淯ntil 1975 women didn鈥檛 have a guaranteed legal right to serve in juries in federal trials.鈥� 鈥淭he main achievement of hierarchy and oppression is to get un-people to accept that it is natural.鈥� 鈥淚n some places the French managed to massacre the entire native population, such as on the island of Grenada.鈥� In Cape Verde, a column is preserved in the center of town where 鈥渢he Portuguese used to hang African slaves.鈥� The first US book showing the extermination of our native people (鈥淭he Invasion of America鈥� by Francis Jennings) only came out in 1975. The Cold War in the end proved to be not a war on Communism or Russia, but a war on radical nationalism. Any country trying to help its own people first, gets invaded after saying they are run by commie sympathizers. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, US planners worked off the assumption that Britain would be wiped out, but the US wouldn鈥檛 because 鈥淩ussian (nuclear) missiles couldn鈥檛 reach there.鈥� That鈥檚 how we treat our allies when no one is looking. 鈥淢ultinational gold mining is the most destructive mining there is.鈥� 鈥淭he idea that the US is opposed to radical Islam is ludicrous. The most extreme fundamentalist state in the world is Saudi Arabia, which is the US鈥檚 favorite.鈥� The US far prefers radical Islam to secular nationalists who support their own population instead of catering to US business elites. 鈥淪ecular nationalists threatened them (US biz elites)鈥� they threaten to take over the resources and use them for domestic development and that鈥檚 the worst sin; so, we support radical Islamists.鈥� We 鈥渢olerate the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood because they are basically neoliberal.鈥�

In its Indochina wars, the US used B52s 鈥渢o bomb the Laotian and Cambodian countryside to prevent Laos and Cambodia from joining Vietnam in its liberation struggle.鈥� 鈥淭here is no doubt that more people were murdered during the US bombing campaigns of the Cambodian countryside than by Khmer Rouge actions.鈥�

Americans sometimes talk about the 800,000 dead in Rwandan 1994 genocide, but much rarer is talk about the six to eight million murdered in the Congo. In fact, before than under Leopold II, ten million were murdered in the Congo which was where Belgians killed more people in Africa than existed in Belgium at that time. The sold-out Encyclopedia Britannica dismissed Leopold鈥檚 genocide entirely as 鈥渉e sometimes treated his people harshly.鈥�

The Double Tap: 鈥淭he US (and Israeli) practice of striking one area multiple times, and evidence that it has killed rescuers, makes both community and humanitarian workers afraid or unwilling to assist injured victims.鈥�

The Black Book of Communism came out in 1997 saying there were 100 million victims of Communism and how could people be so evil. Not mentioned was the work of economist and Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen clearly showing that 100 million also died in capitalist India during the same period equaling China鈥檚 Great Famine, and no one asked how our Allies could be so evil. And good luck finding mention in the US that 鈥淐hina has raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.鈥�

Land of Hypocrisy: The US joined the International Court of Justice 鈥渂ut with the reservation that the US cannot be tried on any international treaty 鈥� meaning the UN Charter, the charter of the American States, the Geneva Conventions. The US is self-immunized from and any on those issues.鈥� When the US signed the Genocide Convention after 40 years, it had a reservation saying that it was 鈥渋napplicable to the United States.鈥� Congress passed legislation 鈥渨hich the Bush administration happily signed, which granted the White House authority to invade the Hague by force in case any American was brought there.鈥� Republicans and even Democrats worry about immigration, but you鈥檒l never hear asked, why are people leaving those countries and what responsibility does the US have for that. Shh鈥�. One of the first things the US did in Fallujah was to 鈥渢ake over the general hospital鈥� 鈥渁nd they threw all the patients on the floor and tied them up.鈥� Winning hearts and minds. The US defense was that because the hospital was releasing casualty figures, it was a 鈥減ropaganda agency鈥�. India hypocritically bragged about being the first country to impose sanctions on South Africa while it kept hundreds of millions at the bottom of an 鈥渁ppalling caste system.鈥� We fought the Iraq War because the Iraqis killed a few hundred people, but note that just in our invasion of Panama, the US killed 鈥渁 couple of thousand鈥�. Hypocrisy. We brought criminal charges against Noriega knowing that his crimes 鈥渨ere primarily from the period he was a CIA asset.鈥� 鈥淭hey (the US) turned against him because he wasn鈥檛 cooperating with their support for the Contras in Nicaragua, so he became an enemy.鈥�

BBC demands a full accounting of what Andre Vltchek is going to say before he goes on there, while Andre says in China 鈥淚 am not censored.鈥� Noam and Andre agree as a progressive you are censored far less in China, Turkey, and Iran and that 鈥淐hinese television and newspapers are much more critical of their own economic and political system than our television stations and newspapers are of ours.鈥� I agree that China is much different than what the US press says: I visited there pre-normalization in 1979. We even scored pot there which came from Manchuria. Yum鈥� Andre notes that the Soviet Union was less narcissist than the US by not holding over the world鈥檚 head that it won WWII (27.5 million of theirs dead and 80% of German casualties were from the Eastern Front) or that (unlike the US) they had a long history of supporting resistance to imperialism and colonialism and liberating dozens of countries.

Advertising: Noam wishes that Americans were told that the function of advertising is 鈥渢o undermine the market鈥� Advertising doesn鈥檛 want informed consumers, it wants 鈥渋rrational choices.鈥� Buy this sugary drink if you want to look cool. Goebbels wrote that 鈥渉e modeled the German Nazi propaganda on American commercial advertising.鈥� For example, the NYT praised the 1953 Iran coup and spun the story. Instead of telling us Mosaddegh was democratically elected and trying to help his people, it painted him as a 鈥渃razy man鈥� and a 鈥渓unatic Arab鈥� walking around in pajamas. Never mind that Iranians are Arabs, they are Persians. The US routinely spins its news, PR, and advertising in a way that would make the ghost of Edward Bernays proud.

US Crimes: Chinese coolies were kidnapped and brought to the US to build the railroads yet US patriots then blathered on about 鈥渢hey are going to take over, they have insidious plans鈥�, etc鈥� Authors like Kundera, Havel and Kohout became intellectual stars by ragging only on non-allies while never criticizing the crimes of the US and Europe. Had the Soviets been as economically nasty as the US it would have robbed Czechoslovakia blind which clearly did not happen. After looking at Soviet crimes, compare the death toll to British, Belgian, Dutch, German, French crimes in just Africa before reflexively pointing moral fingers in only one direction. 鈥淢any countries worldwide would still be colonies if not for the help their liberation movements received from the Soviet Union.鈥� And don鈥檛 forget 鈥淐uba had played a huge role in liberating Africa.鈥� Che Guevara fought for the liberation of the Congo with an entire black Cuban contingent and look at what Cuba did Angola and Namibia 鈥� basically driving out the South Africans. Did they say, 鈥渓ook at me, look what I did鈥� like Donald Trump? No, 鈥渢hey wanted the African leaders to be able to take credit for it.鈥�

When the US illegally bombed Libya, only three countries supported it: Britian, France, and the US 鈥� all other countries demanded diplomacy and negotiations. Noam says Zionist logic is: 鈥淚f you can get away with it, then why stop?鈥� The warped logic of the playground bully, Mafia, Hitler, Genghis Khan, Charles Manson, and many others. For a long time, the US let Europe exploit Africa but now it is into exploiting Africa too. USAFRICOM, cobalt, oil, uranium and minerals anyone? The US 鈥渞econstituted the Mafia in Sicily and southern France鈥� 鈥� 鈥渢he payoff (for helping the US) was to give them control over the heroin industry (French Connection).鈥� Before 鈥淛ust Say No鈥� was 鈥淛ust Say Yes鈥�. NYT correspondent James Reston praised the 鈥�65-鈥�66 Massacre in Indonesia (murdering 500,000 to 1,500,000 civilians) as 鈥渁 gleam of light in Asia.鈥� Australia and Britian as well were euphoric. Three Christianity-based countries delighting in clearly the opposite of the teachings of Christ.

The US share of the world鈥檚 wealth was 50% in 1945 and by 1970, it only had 25%. That鈥檚 a stunning loss. Hello Hubris! Who knew other sovereign nations wouldn鈥檛 want to be bullied annually by the US? If you publicly root for the underdog (like Palestinians, Kashmiris, West Saharans, or what the Beatitudes/Sermon on the Mount tells you to do) in real life, US liberals and conservatives will turn on you because only progressives do what their conscience says instead of first caving to 鈥淲hat would neoliberal Hillary, Rachel Maddow, or Trump do?鈥�

Great book, but every book by Noam is great. Kudos to him yet again and I wish him and Valeria the best in Brazil.
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January 20, 2014
This book is a conversation between Chomsky and Vitchek. For me, the style of the book is primarily a con, though it does make for easy reading (as far as the language goes. The content is not easy/pleasant to digest.)

Because this book is a conversation between two people with a lot of shared knowledge, it is not particularly useful for those who have absolutely knowledge of the issues and conflicts that they are discussing. Statements are made and facts understood between Chomsky and Vitchek, and, sadly, one will not come away from this book with a list for further reading, because sources are not discussed. Throughout the book there are also mentions of "a certain U.S. Company" and "a particular company," which left me wondering "which?" so that I could do further research. A few names of useful scholars as mentioned throughout, but not as many as one would hope for. I had some familiarity with these topics, so I did find the book engaging and useful, however if I had had any less familiarity, I think I would have just been annoyed.

That being said, the book does raise from very important points and considerations that we should be aware of in the modern world, and it was a good read. It is not a good first book on the topic, but it is worth reading.
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December 1, 2014
Chomsky's latest book is certainly one of his most critical of US imperialism. A must-read, "On Western Terrorism" is short, matter-of-fact, and crucial. Fans of Chomsky will not be disappointed.
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October 1, 2019
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May 10, 2017
Zaj铆mav媒 pohled na kontroverzn铆 politiku tzv. "z谩padu" o膷ima dvou brilantn铆ch levicov臎 sm媒拧l铆c铆ch lingvist暖. Ne艡铆k谩m, 啪e si hned budu v pokoji vyv臎拧ovat plak谩ty s Mao Ce-tungem a p艡ed span铆m od艡铆kavat Marx暖v manifest, ale nad ud谩lostmi sv臎tov茅 politiky jsem si nyn铆 vytvo艡il snad o n臎co v臎t拧铆 nadhled.
N臎kter茅 zlo膷iny (p艡edev拧铆m) Spojen媒ch st谩t暖 maj铆 toti啪 膷asto d臎siv臎j拧铆 dopad, ne啪 hr暖znosti socialisti膷t臎j拧铆ch st谩t暖, kter茅 n谩m jsou p艡edkl谩d谩ny jako neprominuteln茅.

Noam Chomsky je fakt legenda.
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April 19, 2025
I know I give every Chomsky book 5 stars but I really loved the dialogic format and what Vltchek was able to bring to the conversation as a war correspondent
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August 7, 2020
Very informative, but confused and all over the place due to the dialogue, interview style. Full of "I think"s and "if my memory serves me right" and so on. This could have been corrected in the margins, as other reviewers suggested. For example, in P.74 they mention a UN women's rights representative in Afghanistan, but don't mention her name, a margin note would've been great help.

The title misleadingly says Western Terrorism, while Western media bias, and propaganda are the main themes. This book is more of a critique of media and public awareness than anything else. Also, the book is largely a comparison between Soviet and Chinese Communism and Western-style multi-party democracy and Capitalism. It's like two like-minded friends having a conversation about the world, shifting between subjects, some of which have nothing to do with the rest, such as Chomsky's sudden piece of travel journalism through India in Chapter 5. Not a properly organized book, yet their great knowledge and personal experiences in war-torn nations and with the deception of mainstream media makes it a great read.
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July 12, 2020
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兀賲丕 毓賳 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 賮賴賷 亘卮賰賱 毓丕賲 噩賷丿丞貙 賱賵賱丕 兀賳 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇 丕賱噩丕賲毓賷 丕賱丨丕賯丿 毓賱賶 丕賱禺賱賷噩貙 賱丕 賷毓乇賮 丕賱鬲賮乇賷賯 亘賷賳 丕賱囟丕丿 賵丕賱馗丕亍貙 賴丐賱丕亍 賴賲 賲孬賯賮賵丕 賴匕賴 丕賱胤亘賯丞 :)
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1,704 reviews1 follower
August 26, 2016
I put this down unfinished. I don't dissuade you from reading it, but my lack of knowledge about the history of world politics kept me from being able to follow the conversation. (The book format follows a conversation between Chomsky and Vlatchek.)

It did seem to me that most of Chomsky's information was dated -- not that that makes the murder of millions of people (80 - 100 million estimated) referred to as "un-people" because they are not Westerners, but according to Vltchek there are atrocities happening today in Asia, Africa, and South America.

I didn't see any references to specifics (reasons for conflict, aggressors/victims, etc). Instead the two float from one historic event to another with vague references. There isn't anything to use to substantiate their assertions.
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428 reviews
March 6, 2016
I didn't care for the way the book was written. A conversation between two people with the same ideas, gave no reason to see their conversation from a different perspective. Who's to say they are correct? I don't like to think that the United States is guilty of so much "takeover" in the world, however history shows us that the major world powers were always in the business of taking over more and more - power. I don't recommend it.
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202 reviews2 followers
February 24, 2020
If you are depressed by the inhumanity and cruelty perpetrated by governments don't read this book it will not cheer you up. But if you want to know how things work in the real world then you have to read this book. Forget the conspiracy theorists read Chomsky he doesn't make unsubstantiated claims he has done the research and he has proofs. I'm amazed that he is still alive not because of his age but because he's been such a thorn for so long for so many governments.
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866 reviews50 followers
June 26, 2017
Like a lot of Chomsky books, this one is a transcription of a conversation. It's a little bit of a cop-out to have so many of his books written this way, but it's still interesting. As usual, Chomsky challenges the neoliberal conventional wisdom and helps me to think of things differently. I would like a more thorough full book reading of the ideas though.
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September 16, 2022
鬲丨匕賷乇 賯亘賱 鬲賯乇兀 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丞:
丕賳丕 噩丕賴賱 爻賷丕爻賷丕 賵賲丕 毓賳丿賷 丕賷 賲毓乇賮丞 賵賴匕賷 賲噩乇丿 丕賮賰丕乇 噩鬲 亘亘丕賱賷 賵丕賳丕 丕賯乇丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘貙 賵孬丕賳賷丕賸 賲丕 丕毓乇賮 丕乇賰亘 噩賲賱鬲賷賳 毓賱賶 亘毓囟 丕賱賲毓匕乇丞 :)



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賵賴匕丕 丕賱氐乇丕丨賴 賷賯賳毓賳賷 丕賳
White people will always be white people no matter how
progressive they might try to be

賷毓丕賲賱賵賳 賯囟丕賷丕 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賵賰兀賳賴賲 毓丕賷卮賷賳賴丕 賵毓丕乇賮賷賳 氐睾丕卅乇賴丕 賵賰亘丕卅乇賴丕.
賵毓丕賷卮賷賳 毓賱賶 賲亘丿兀 毓丿賵 毓丿賵賷 氐丿賷賯賷.
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They wouldn't even mention the massacres happening in iran or all the militias it's funding in the region just because they aren't doing it on behalf of the US or multinationals?

賲丕 丕丿乇賷 丕匕丕 賯丕毓丿 丕亘乇亘乇 賲賳 乇丕爻賷 丕賵 賱丕 亘爻 賲丨夭賳 丕賳賰 鬲卮賵賮 賳馗乇丞 丕亘賷囟 賵丕爻賵丿 賱賱毓丕賱賲 賲賳 賳丕爻 丕賱賲賮乇賵囟 丕賳賴丕 賲賳 丕賮囟賱 丕賱賲賮賰乇賷賳 亘丕賱毓丕賱賲....


亘丕禺鬲氐丕乇 賲賳 亘丿丕賷丞 賴丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賰賳鬲 毓丕乇賮 丕賳賷 賲丕乇丨 丕鬲賮賯 賲毓 丕睾賱亘 丕賱賱賷 賷賯賵賱賴 鬲卮賵賲爻賰賷 賱賰賳 丨亘賷鬲 丕毓乇囟 賳賮爻賷 賱亘毓囟 丕賱丕乇丕亍 丕賱賷爻丕乇賷丞 毓卮丕賳 鬲賵丕夭賳 丕賱亘乇賵亘丕睾賳丿丕 丕賱賱賷 賳鬲毓乇囟 賱賴丕 賰賱 賷賵賲 卮賵賷.

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66 reviews
September 17, 2019
The title is misleading. I was expecting a discussion on the West's terrorist tactics (a la Howard Zinn's Terrorism and War), but most of the book discusses the propaganda and reality of Western imperialist maneuvering. The book could best be described as an introduction to Chomsky's political thought. Through a transcribed conversation, Chomsky and Vitchek discuss the ways through which the West 鈥� largely the United States 鈥� have managed to oppress and exploit less powerful nations, and the ways in which propaganda covers up such abuses of power by throwing the spotlight in the traditional enemies of Russia, China, etc. Whether through media bombardment or the support of coups, Chomsky and Vitchek delineate the many instances of modern imperialism and the ways in which Western propaganda has managed to give itself the moral mandate.

The book covers events from every corner of the world, serving as a great summary of the past ~50 years of American imperialism, but in doing so sacrifices a lot of the complexity that characterizes superlative intellectual thought. This is certainly no Manufacturing Consent. My issue is the way, or perhaps speed, in which certain discussion topics were brought up and subsequently dropped. Issues are broached too quickly for a neophyte to draw any meaning from them, yet the book fails to draw any new conclusions that might entertain one with a more veteran understanding of international affairs. I suppose the book is most impactful in its scope: it forces the reader to consider the extent to which the West has abused the globe for personal gain. A rather strange book, maybe not best served by its format of a transcribed discussion, but fairly edifying if nothing else.
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September 18, 2019
Buen铆simo broli sobre terrorismo, libertad de derechos y de expresi贸n. Entre otras cosas. Chomsky y Vltchek no s贸lo analizan diferentes temas a trav茅s de un di谩logo en donde no siempre coinciden, sino que tambi茅n relatan muchas de sus experiencias, en primera persona, en lo que es para mi lo m谩s valioso, destacado y singular del libro. Sobre todo para qui茅n est谩 acostumbrado a leer a Chomsky.
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89 reviews
July 1, 2020
I've always admired authors who make readers aware of what's going on around them in real life. I dare say that this book not only emphasized & put what I already know in order but also introduced me to facts I haven't payed attention to whatsoever. Every youth in every part of the world should read it, you know why? 'Cause they will eventually find that a piece of them was once terrorized someway or the other鈥攐r even it is continuing to be terrorized. We should be aware of this, not to spread hatred, but to BE AWARE when the subject is put on the table for discussion. To be angry, so that change may happen. To have an answer when, for instance, someone attacks you saying that "your country is a terrorist!" To know who really made you homeless, who colonized you, & made you migrate, for you don't want to end up ignorantly honoring those who made you go through the struggle of it all.

The authors also talked about media propaganda. This part was my favorite, because it finally gave me answers to things I've experienced first hand, such as talking about U.S & Western Europeans citizens in a way that I found so true: "Their world is mono-polar. They don't compare different ideas, ideals, & ideologies. They only have one ideology; which can be called 'market-fundamentalism,'..." Also, "After living in all the continents in the world, I actually believe that the "Westerners" are the most indoctrinated, the least informed..... But they believe the opposite: that they are the best informed & the 'freest' people."

I highlighted most of this book & I plan to re-read some of its chapters, for I need to be more knowledgable in some so that I could thoroughly grasp what the authors have discussed.
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93 reviews23 followers
April 29, 2016
An eye-opening transcript of a conversation exposing the extent of past and ongoing Western imperialism.

While I appreciate Andre Vltchek's attempt in divulging the role of Western powers in destabilizing countries that dare to adopt democracy (as this goes against Western interests), I wish more facts had been presented; some of Vltchek's comments seem based on pure conjecture. It was a bit difficult to follow some of the conversation as the two kept flitting from one conflict or dictator to the next, taking it for granted the reader would be acquainted with the subject matter. Footnotes would have sufficed. The timeline however, was very valuable.

Democracy, overall, seems like the world's biggest farce. Towards the end, I was left in despair at the seemingly hopeless scenario presented of the world today. But as Chomsky concludes, '...we have only two choices: one is to say "it's hopeless, let's give up" and help make sure the worst will happen. And the other is to say, "well, we could try to make things better, so we will try." If it works, it works, if it doesn't, we go back to the worst choice. Those are the options for us.'

The question remains, which option will you choose?
39 reviews4 followers
September 15, 2013
Just the facts.

And the facts are devastating, especially in view of our (Western) past actions. The latest developments in the Middle East are still unfolding and will be usefully illuminated by this masterpiece.

Absolutely essential reading for anyone brave enough to look beyond political propaganda. New chapters are being written every day - and the evidence is overwhelmingly supporting items which the book, published before the information was publicly released, merely lists as hypotheses, for instance:

"............what makes the single page found at the Reagan Library so explosive is that it contains the complete and unredacted portion of the intelligence estimate that details what the CIA thought it knew back in 1983 about Israel's work on chemical weapons, which the CIA's censors had carefully excised from the version released to the National Archives in 2009...."



Watch this space!


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439 reviews
October 7, 2014
This is the third of the Chomsky-in-conversation books which I've read, and it's my pick of the lot.

I'm inclined to give Vltchek a lot of the credit for this. He's clearly an experienced and thoughtful political observer in his own right, and, while unfailingly courteous, he sometimes offers information and insights which counter Chomsky's ideas. More than once I felt Vltchek was the more persuasive of the two. Chomsky, in turn, is plainly interested in what his interviewer has to say. His output has been uneven in recent years, but here he is in excellent form, and my guess is that he found Vltchek stimulating company.

The range of subject matter is extremely broad. I was particularly interested in their unorthodox perspectives on Eastern Europe and India/China; their scattered comments on African politics are also intriguing, and I rather wish the subject had been covered more thoroughly in a chapter of its own.

Although I was sometimes vexed by the lack of reference notes, one has to bear in mind that the book is an interview, and not a weighty scholarly tome.
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