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Noam Chomsky: Non ha più importanza chi detiene il potere politico, tanto non sono più loro a decidere le cose da fare.

Noam Chomsky: Non ha più importanza chi detiene il potere politico, tanto non sono più loro a decidere le cose da fare.

NOAM CHOMSKY:

NON HA PIÙ IMPORTANZA CHI DETIENE IL POTERE POLITICO, TANTO NON SONO PIÙ LORO A DECIDERE LE COSE DA FARE.

30 novembre 2014

Chomsky di Noam Chomsky (basato su dibattiti tenuti in Illinois, New Jersey,Massachusetts, New York e Maryland nel 1994,1996 e 1999) UN uomo: Negli ultimi venticinque anni il capitale finanziario multinazionale, piuttosto che negli investimenti e nel commercio,…

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Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky, Tom Hayden Urge President Correa to Grant Snowden Asylum

We write to urge you to grant political asylum to whistle-blower Edward Snowden. Snowden’s disclosures have already done much to unveil the alarming scale of U.S. government spying on its own citizen... http://dlvr.it/3ZZy6m

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Well, these are major phenomena of modern life-but where do you go to study them in the universities or the academic profession? That's a very interesting question. You don't go to the economics department, because that's not what they look at: the real hot-shot economics departments are interested in abstract models of how a pure free-enterprise economy works you know, generalizations to ten-dimensional space of some nonexistent free-market system. You don't go to the political science department, because they're concerned with electoral statistics, and voting patterns, and micro-bureaucracy-like the way one government bureaucrat talks to another in some detailed air. You don't go to the anthropology department, because they're studying hill tribesmen in New Guinea. You don't go to the sociology department, because they're studying crime in the ghettos. In fact, you don't go anywhere there isn't any field that deals with these topics. There's no journal that deals with them. In fact, there is no academic profession that is concerned with the central problems of modern society. Now, you can go to the business school, and there they'll talk about them because those people are in the real world. But not in the academic departments: nobody there is going to tell you what's really going on in the world.

Understanding Power - Noam Chomsky

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Same thing is true here - when the press focuses on the sex lives of politicians, reach for your pocket, and see who’s pulling out your wallet, because those are not the issues that matter to people. I mean, they’re very marginal interest. The issues that matter to people are somewhere else, so as soon as you hear, you know, the press and presidential candidates and so on, talking about "values", as I say, put your hand on your wallet - you know that something else is happening.

Noam Chomsky

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The linguistics professor is seen by some as a truth-teller, by others as an anti-US crank. He talks to John McDermott about the link between activism and academia