Posts Tagged ‘Noam Chomsky’
Book Review for the Book The Zionists Tried to Ban – Bad News for Labour
Book Review for the Book The Zionists Tried to Ban – Bad News for Labour UCL Backs Off Speech Restrictions at the Book Launch for The Responsibility of Intellectuals Reflections by Noam Chomsky and other intellectuals As you may recall, this book by 5 distinguished academics – Greg Philo, Mike Berry, Justin Schlosberg, Antony Lerman and David…
Read MoreThe Chomsky Challenge for Americans
Why do they hate us? This was the iconic photo of the Vietnam War of a naked 9 year girl running, having been napalmed. Her younger brother is to her left in the background and the US sponsored South Vietnamese troops are in the rear. Today Kim Phuc lives in Canada, having been granted asylum…
Read MoreChomsky at the Massachusetts’s Institute of Technology
Between the war scientists and the anti-war students A guest post by Chris Knight It is now fifty years since Noam Chomsky published his celebrated article, ‘The Responsibility of Intellectuals’. Few other writings had a greater impact on the turbulent political atmosphere on US campuses in the 1960s. The essay launched Chomsky’s political career as…
Read MoreIn Memory of the great anti-war priest Daniel Berrigan
Most priests and religious leaders are like our own Chief Rabbi Mirvis. Pious nationalists who tie the interest of the State to that of religion. In Nazi Germany the Protestant Reich Church had as its slogan ‘with the cross in our hearts and the swastika on our breasts’. Chief Rabbi Mirvis [see Ken Livingstone and…
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