http://www.thecommentfactory.com Join And Start Writing Today! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:52:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.thecommentfactory.com/chomsky-on-what-we-can-do-for-palestine-3338/ http://www.thecommentfactory.com/chomsky-on-what-we-can-do-for-palestine-3338/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:52:17 +0000 Noam Chomsky http://www.thecommentfactory.com/?p=3338

Noam Chomsky is misguided on the Israel-Palestine dispute Omri Preiss takes a look at what Noam Chomsky has been saying about the Israel-Palestine dispute....

Unless Palestinian leaders change their tactics, Obama will be more of the same on Israel-Palestine The Palestinian leadership in the US have shown little interest in working the US political system, but if Obama is to be a change, it must happen....

The Semitic civil war: Why one-state is the only answer for Israel-Palestine The only lasting option for peace, I feel, is one state for two peoples. Two states for two peoples, the current mantra, won’t work. It puts an impossible burden on...

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The Toronto declaration is not a violation of artistic freedom The protest is not against the individual Israeli filmmakers included in City to City, nor does it in any way suggest that Israeli films should be unwelcome at TIFF. However,...

Media freedom in Mexico is being strangled Mexico is the most dangerous place in the Americas for journalists, and it's often the people who have the power to protect the media from attacks who are doing the...

The West cares nothing for freedom and democracy The West only supports democracy when it's in their interest....

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No charge in Ian Tomlinson death The Crown Prosecution Service has said there is no charge to answer in the case of a newspaper vendor who died during G20 protests in London. So the police culture...

Police brutality at G20: The revenge of the citizen journalists A combination of aggressive, violent policing, and a complicit press, sees that the curtailment of civil liberties and stifling of freedom of speech goes unchecked...

Police in bras and stockings? Despite the fact that photographs from the first day of the G20 protests in April 2009 show me astride an armoured personnel carrier in black bra and blue boiler suit...

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Ian Tomlinson ruling: can we trust officers to police protests fairly? The decision not to charge the officer who struck Ian Tomlinson casts doubt on our safety at policed demonstrations...

Police brutality at G20: The revenge of the citizen journalists A combination of aggressive, violent policing, and a complicit press, sees that the curtailment of civil liberties and stifling of freedom of speech goes unchecked...

Police in bras and stockings? Despite the fact that photographs from the first day of the G20 protests in April 2009 show me astride an armoured personnel carrier in black bra and blue boiler suit...

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Islamophobia is a plague, says an atheist Jew Islamophobia perverts the true tenets of Islam, and tars peaceful Muslims with the brush of the fundamentalist minority....

Delegitimizing the claims of one religion in the house of another Zachary Goelman reports on a lecture from Professor Mordechai Kedar, a Koranic scholar, who is quick to pick apart the Islamic faith on a rational level, but is unable to...

Remembering Bassem Abu Rahma, murdered at demonstration in Bil’in, Palestine, last week Frank Barat remembers the fighter for justice, Bassem Abu Rahma, who was murdered last week by the IDF in the West Bank...

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Indian filmstar Shahrukh Khan’s detention at a US Airport – what we should be asking Indian film star Shahrukh Khan's detention at New Jersey asks an important question. ...

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Life in Haiti’s camps goes on, the people’s spirit shines As we were walking through the camp a little girl, no older than four, came up behind me, put her arms around my waist and grabbed onto my hand tightly....

How Haiti was forsaken "Now is the time to step up our investment in Haiti," Clinton reiterated in April at an Inter-American Development Bank meeting in Washington, D.C. Yet six months after the earthquake,...

Haiti is still the issue: Nadije’s Letter I have nothing but photos and the fading memory of a meeting to remind me that this woman is real. Naïve trust borne from her persistent communications about her day-to-day...

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The Shock Doctrine in Haiti For years, UN 'peacekeepers' have slaughtered thousands of Haitians, and the residents have been put through rigged election procedures. Lavalas members, priests, and activists have been subject to political imprisonment...

Haiti: Do we and should we care? As a Government, should the UK be interested in the tragedy of Haiti? If you were to take the reaction and generosity of the British Public in the form of...

“Nothing’s changed”: My Haiti six months later People in the outside world always think negative about Haiti. They think of us as rebels, vagabonds, and much worse. But what they don’t know is our people are tired....

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Serb provocations over Srebrenica massacre Serbian denials of the Srebrenica genocide prompted Holocaust survivor and President of the U.N. Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Judge Theodor Meron, to pay a visit to the Srebrenica...

Srebrenica Numbers: DNA Science vs. Genocide Denial Forensic evidence confirms 8,100 Bosniak victims summarily executed immediately after the fall of Srebrenica...

Sustaining Necessary Illusions: The Bosnia Genocide Lobby Strikes Again A recent post to The Comment Factory chided Truthdig contributor Chris Hedges over his profile of Noam Chomsky in April.[1] Drafted by “three activists,” it took Hedges to task for...

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Living on benefits in the UK Near where we live there is a brand new complex of smartish looking business premises. At the time, they had just one occupant: Shaw Trust. And Chubby was possibly the...

Israeli propaganda has succeeded in presenting this war as an attack on Hamas. It is actually an attack on civilians. The Israeli propaganda machine is a well-oiled machine and it has succeeded in presenting this war as solely on Hamas. This is a lie. It is an attack on all...

‘Break down the hate and bring out the kindness’: Improving the UK’s benefit system Jess Steele, one of the architects of the Community Allowance, was passionate about the 'billions of pounds we spend on welfare every year just to keep people above the gutter'....

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Interview: Noam Chomsky on US-Iran relations Kourosh Ziabari talks to Professor Noam Chomsky about the fraught relationship between his country, Iran, and the United States...

Johann Hari on Chomsky, Hitchens, Iraq, and anarchism But I think Hitchens arguments are so well put and one should engage with them and take them at face value. He says Saddam was intermeshed increasingly with Islam. Zarquawi,...

Noam Chomsky on Barack Obama Chomsky takes on the President-elect....

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