Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomskyis an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, logician, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes described as "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 has spent more than half a century at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is Institute Professor Emeritus, and is the author of over 100 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth7 December 1928
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.
There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War.
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore.
The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away.
The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.
On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.
It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination.
It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.
Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.
By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.
Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.
In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.
The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.