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Is Noam Chomsky a good source?

Noam Chomsky is an important part of this balanced breakfast. Fortified with 9 vitamins and iron, Noam Chomsky is the morning pick-me-up that keeps on delivering all day long.
 
When I become the world's foremost professor of underwater basketweaving, I'm going to branch out into global politics as well.
 
I know he describes himself as an "anarcho-socialist" which given how socialism requires a massive centralized government to impose/enforce, makes as much sense as an atheist-theocrat.
 
His universal grammar - in their opinion, and from what I know of it, I'd agree - is not a predictive theory, but rather a post-hoc rationalisation. That is, it's simply a model patterned to fit the data, without any explanatory power.

Similar criticism can be found in the Wikipedia article on the subject.
 
Phrost said:
I know he describes himself as an "anarcho-socialist" which given how socialism requires a massive centralized government to impose/enforce, makes as much sense as an atheist-theocrat.
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I'm sorry, can you cit what qualifications you have to make that statement?

How's the underwater basket-weaving going?
 
NWO: Why are you asking about Chomsky's views on the "cold war"? Do you have any links to Chomsky's comments you have a particular concern about?

I think we can assume Chomsky doesn't hold your view on the 'red threat'.
 
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Your first post in this thread is seemingly critical of Chomsky for pronouncing on political matters which are outside of the field of his academic background, I was wondering how widely you applied the principle.
 
skeptigirl said:
NWO: Why are you asking about Chomsky's views on the "cold war"? Do you have any links to Chomsky's comments you have a particular concern about?

I think we can assume Chomsky doesn't hold your view on the 'red threat'.
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well, there was "the washington connection and Third World fascism"

The Cold War was real, and the Soviet Union was an active Player

As for you, you try to downplay history by portaying the Soviet union as if it were never a threat.

Communism was a real threat (Korea, Mitrokhin Archive, Venona files, "The President and the Press" etc.). Read about the Potsdam and Yalta conferences. You will find that Stalin was the one who instigated the whole cold war boondoggle.
 
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As for you, you try to downplay history by portaying the Soviet union as if it were never a threat.
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You have such an imagination based reality.

If someone doesn't agree with your world view you seem to fill in all the blanks you don't have a clue about with your stereotyped version of the person. You have done that with your incorrect comments about my beliefs numerous times in this forum.


It's typical of the right wing, 'America, Love It or Leave It' crowd. If you criticize the government, you must automatically be praising the enemy. It's bull. That is simplistic thinking that the world is good and evil, black and white.


Here's some news for you: You can support capitalism and still be against the methods the US government has frequently instituted to support capitalism.

I happen to think we'd have a much better capitalist economy if greed didn't over-ride humanitarian values. The most concrete example of this was modeled by Henry Ford. Pay your workers enough to buy your product!
 
Here are some links to excerpts from The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman; published by South End Press, 1979 posted on Third World Traveler.

More book excerpts, Google books


Chomsky is well informed on this subject. I'm sure many Americans prefer to not address these issues and believe instead in the John Wayne version of America. There are two sides to some of these stories, but the fact many in the American public have turned a blind eye to this side has made the world a worse place, not a better one.
 
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skeptigirl said:
You have such an imagination based reality.

If someone doesn't agree with your world view you seem to fill in all the blanks you don't have a clue about with your stereotyped version of the person. You have done that with your incorrect comments about my beliefs numerous times in this forum.

It's typical of the right wing, 'America, Love It or Leave It' crowd. If you criticize the government, you must automatically be praising the enemy. It's bull. That is simplistic thinking that the world is good and evil, black and white.

Here's some news for you: You can support capitalism and still be against the methods the US government has frequently instituted to support capitalism.

I happen to think we'd have a much better capitalist economy if greed didn't over-ride humanitarian values. The most concrete example of this was modeled by Henry Ford. Pay your workers enough to buy your product!
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No, It was about preventing Communism from Spreading. The President and the Press

I am citing World War 2 behind Closed Doors By Laurence Rees, the Venona Files, Oleg Kalugin, Ion Pacepa, the Mitrokhin Archive etc.

You do realise what the Red Terror was in Russia (20 million dead, including the Holodomor between 1931 and 1941).

Communism was a real threat. The Korean war was a conspiracy involving Stalin, Mao and Kim Il Sung.

It was very polarised, but there were shades of grey with the cloak-and-dagger (Contras, Gladio, AJAX etc.)

The Forced Famines in China that left 40 million dead: Mao the unknown story (1958-1961)

If US Intervention Prevented a Stalin or Mao from coming to power, it improved everyone's lives.

Wasn't henry Ford a Nazi BTW?

Thirdworldtraveler is a joke BTW, with my woo level heading off the Scale. Give me one photo of Rumsfeld and Saddam and i will give you 1 of Che and Mao.

Edward S Herman? The same guy that runs the Srebrenica group, the biggest Genocide deniers since David Irving?

John wayne Version? Check out the declassified Soviet documents as well as Ion Mihai Pacepa, the Highest ranking eastern Bloc defector. Kalugin is also good.
 
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NWO Sentryman: May I ask why you started this thread? Are you sincerely wondering if Chomsky is a good source on the Cold War, or do you already have an opinion of his views?
 
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