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is used as a basis for war when it should have been an international law enforcement matter.

Chomsky argues that 9-11 should have been treated as an international law enforcement matter and not used as a basis for war. The US should have tested the Taliban's offer to turn over Bin Laden in return for the presentation of evidence of his guilt. They should have avoided embarking on a path of war-making that would cause great suffering and strengthen Islamic terrorist. Chomsky says that the British solved the problem of IRA terrorism not by carpet bombing Northern Ireland or Boston-- the latter city a significant source of funding for the IRA. Instead, the British made an effort to address the grievances that the IRA used to fuel its terror. But the US is not really interested in fighting terrorism, according to Chomsky. It is interested in using events like 911 as a cover for policies to increase its world domination and empower its domestic elite.

is a conception of a very organized society, but organized from below by direct participation at every level, with as little control and domination as is feasible, maybe none.

Anarcho-syndicalism is a particular variety of anarchism which was concerned primarily, though not solely, but primarily with control over work, over the work place, over production. It took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, [that] they ought to control the enterprises in which they work, along with communities, so they should be associated with one another in free associations, and democracy of that kind should be the foundational elements of a more general free society. And then, you know, ideas are worked out about how exactly that should manifest itself, but I think that is the core of anarcho-syndicalist thinking. I mean it's not at all the general image that you described people running around the streets, you know, breaking store windows but [anarcho-syndicalism] is a conception of a very organized society, but organized from below by direct participation at every level, with as little control and domination as is feasible, maybe none. http://goo.gl/rR5TFO

is a variety of anarchism concerned primarily producing a free and democratic society through control over work, over the work place, over production... that is, working people ought to control the enterprises in which they work, along with communities, so they should be associated with one another in free associations.

is a war that was essentially a confrontation along North-South lines rather than East-West.

For Chomsky, the cold war was essentially a confrontation along North-South lines rather than East-West. In this 500-year war of conquest against colonized peoples, anarchism or left communism rarely played a prominent role. But this does not prevent Chomsky from identifying with those in struggle, whatever their ideology.

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is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. Noam Chomsky

is a freedom which,  if we don't believe in it for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky

is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it. Noam Chomsky

is tasked with speaking truth to power and exposing lies.

To restate and slightly paraphrase Chomsky, the role of the intellectual is to speak truth to power and to expose lies.

is a special faculty of the mind not dependent on other cognitive or perceptual processes.

For Chomsky language is a special faculty of the mind not dependent on other cognitive or perceptual processes.

 was originally a single chance mutation that occurred in one individual in the order of 100,000 years ago, instantaneously installing the language faculty (a component of the mind-brain) in 'perfect' or 'near-perfect' form.

Noam Chomsky, a prominent proponent of discontinuity theory, argues that a single chance mutation occurred in one individual in the order of 100,000 years ago, instantaneously installing the language faculty (a component of the mind-brain) in 'perfect' or 'near-perfect' form.[6] According to this view, emergence of language resembled the formation of a crystal... with digital infinity as the seed crystal in a super-saturated primate brain, on the verge of blossoming into the human mind, by physical law, once evolution added a single small but crucial keystone.[7][8] It follows from this theory that language appeared rather suddenly within the history of human evolution.' (wikipedia)

is a scam thought up by intellectuals to keep themselves employed.

is an extreme example of posturing – using fancy terms like polysyllables and pretending to have a theory when he has no theory whatsoever.

What you’re referring to is what’s called “theory.” And when I said I’m not interested in theory, what I meant is, I’m not interested in posturing–using fancy terms like polysyllables and pretending you have a theory when you have no theory whatsoever. So there’s no theory in any of this stuff, not in the sense of theory that anyone is familiar with in the sciences or any other serious field. Try to find in all of the work you mentioned some principles from which you can deduce conclusions, empirically testable propositions where it all goes beyond the level of something you can explain in five minutes to a twelve-year-old. See if you can find that when the fancy words are decoded. I can’t. So I’m not interested in that kind of posturing. zizek is an extreme example of it. I don’t see anything to what he’s saying.

is a problem that can be stopped when the u.S. Stops participating in it itself.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. Noam Chomsky

is the wanton killing of innocent civilians. Thus, our war cannot be called a war against terrorism.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. Noam Chomsky

is just churning out obedient employees these days.

Noam Chomsky: Our Universities Are Basically Just Churning Out Obedient Employees

is essentially terrorism in sofar as it consist of the wanton killing of innocent civilians.

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