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In thinking about international affairs, it is useful to keep in mind several principles of considerable generality and import. The first is the maxim of Thucydides: the strong do as they wish, and the weak suffer as they must. It has an important corollary: every powerful state relies on specialists in apologetics, whose task is to show that what the strong do is noble and just, and if the weak suffer it is their fault. In the contemporary West, these specialists are called “intellectuals,” and with only marginal exceptions, they fulfill their assigned task with skill and self-righteousness, however outlandish the claims, a practice that traces back to the origins of recorded history

It looks like Chomsky and Ian Williams have been having a tiff. At the words “Chomsky” and “tiff,” the first question is, what’s the body count? The expected has occurred, but Williams has opted for a peculiar sort of posterity. Call it the walking dead. Like most zombies, Williams’s mental capa­bil­i­ties aren’t so keen

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, especially in the wake of this year’s brutal assault on Gaza, protest is against the use of such an important international festival in staging a propaganda campaign on behalf of what the South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and UN General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann have all characterized as an apartheid regime.

Kourosh Ziabari talks to Professor Noam Chomsky about the fraught relationship between his country, Iran, and the United States

Chomsky takes on the myths surrounding the US embargo on Cuba.

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

In this exclusive interview, Matt Kennard caught up with Professor Noam Chomsky just after the Monks protest in Burma to discuss human nature, religion and prospects for the future.

Chomsky takes on the President-elect.

Noam Chomsky explains why the Republican campaign has become so base.

Noam Chomsky takes on Alvaro Uribe.