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
So the first things that you see when you look up something on Google could be dependent on the amount of advertising or something else. Since it is a profit making institution, it is going to reflect the interests and concerns of those who fund it, which is advertisers.
If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.
There is always room for Gramsci's "optimism of the will."
In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.
The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations.
If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.
If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified.
The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.
The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.
You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.
Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.
But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't duplicate that on blogs.
I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.