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Noam Chomsky visits Caracas

"Chomsky blames the US for causing stress in the region

On Monday evening, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez said at the Miraflores presidential palace that Chomsky “is among the intellectuals who have helped most in the fight against the imperial hegemony”

In a conference held on Monday at the Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas, US linguist and essayist Noam Chomsky criticized the "imperial mindset" of the United States and accused its government of "exacerbating tensions among Latin American nations."

Dr. Chomsky, Professor Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, praised the initiative of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) for considering that it helps Latin American countries "decide on their own future."

With regard to an agreement on the use by US troops of seven Colombian military bases to fight drug traffic and terrorism he is certain that "Venezuela alone cannot give a reply. There should be a total reply by the Latin American community; the Unasur meeting should produce a communiqué strenuously opposing the deployment of bases in Latin America."

On Monday evening, Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez said at the Miraflores presidential palace that Chomsky "is among the intellectuals who have helped most in the fight against the imperial hegemony."

Chomsky thanked him and viewed as "exciting" that "a new model is being built in Venezuela."

http://english.eluniversal.com/2009/08/25/en_pol_esp_chomsky-blames-th...

By Dolfi on Aug 28, 2009, 02:58 in Off Topic.

aztec says on Aug 28, 2009, 03:19:

Marxist thug! Protected and pampered, tenured jobs in academia, for example: Chomsky at MIT.

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aztec says on Aug 28, 2009, 03:21:

"Marxists linguist, whose theories have long been discarded except those dreaming of a world like Cuba and Venezuela."

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El Expatriado says on Aug 28, 2009, 03:33:

Boy that guy Chomsky is areal loser.

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Desideria (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Aug 28, 2009, 03:48:

He's one of my all-time heroes.
ANG...he's neither Marxist nor a thug.

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tasco66 says on Aug 28, 2009, 07:08:

"Chomsky thanked him and viewed as "exciting" that "a new model is being built in Venezuela."

Jajajajaja...now that's funny!

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win (Leonid Brezhnev)

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winsurfer says on Aug 28, 2009, 07:47:

He is a libertarian socialist, not a marxist. His debate with William F. Buckley on colonialism is worth watching if it ever made it to youtube. I took one of his courses when I was at MIT, but it was a computer science course (linguistic grammer in CS). What surprised me was the small class size...only 35-40 students in a language lab.

Az, your capacity to inhale books is truly astounding. Most of Chomsky's works is a _lot_ of books.

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kingfish5515 says on Aug 28, 2009, 09:38:

I never heard of this guy before now, but it would seem he is a well known dedicated commie,,, wonder if he is on messiahobamas radar to be put in an important position in government, maybe another czar of something. Never waste a crisis or a dedicated commie!! kingfish

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greg says on Aug 28, 2009, 09:50:

Good book by Chomsky is Hegemony Or Survival

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Desideria (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Aug 28, 2009, 10:13:

Sorry to be a little harsh, but I've only heard him called a commie by the most ignorant and uneducated individuals of the society and hearing my friend, an extremely well-educated, intelligent and compassionate university professor call him a criminal and and a communist is rather upsetting.

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kingfish5515 says on Aug 28, 2009, 12:51:

Lets see here,, some have suggested this guy is not a commie. I never heard of him before this article, but deducting exerpts of his speech, having the blessing of Hugo, being exited at the "new model" of Ven, and by judging by the comments by several of the above, it would be hard to assume this dude is a capitalist right wing zealot. Maybe he is just a non marxist libertarianist socialist and not a dedicated commie!!! That should clarify things a bit. Of course, I may be ignorant as one has suggested, after all I am not a liberal elitist, but I is right very much edukated from the US univarsity sistem, whether that says much or not is for debate. Kingfish

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greg says on Aug 28, 2009, 12:56:

Maybe if you have never heard of him you should find out a little bit more about him. Hard to believe you could
make your judgement on Chomsky by the tiny bit of info here!

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Desideria (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Aug 28, 2009, 14:52:

"I is right very much edukated from the US univarsity sistem, whether that says much or not is for debate. Kingfish"
Axtually. it does say a little bit. LOL
Or as my daughter's math teacher said: "She a good girl but she don't know no multiplication tables"
Cheers!

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Lcacique says on Aug 28, 2009, 15:50:

Chomsky is a libertarian socialist who is sympathetic to anarcho-syndicalism. While he is obviously left of center, he is extremely critical of many communist leaders. You're right kingfish, he is not a right wing capitalist zealot nor is he a left wing communist zealot.

"Es fácil vivir con los ojos cerrados interpretando todo lo que se ve mal..." ~ J. Lennon

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Chriscan (☼Travelguide writer) says on Aug 28, 2009, 19:54:

I see him as pretty much in the middle on the political spectrum. There is no question that he is brilliant. I love how I can read stuff of his that should be out dated but it still seems relevant. I understand what he likes about what happening in Venezuela. Standing up to huge corporations in the one thing Chavez has done right (or left I suppose). Just because Chavez does a lot of stupid things doesn't mean that everything he does is stupid.

I can stand political simpletons that never have opinions of their own. They pick heroes and villains like a poor Hollywood action movie and don't care what their hero says, it's all perfect. This is just as true for the Chavistas as the neo cons.

Beam me up Scotty; No intelligent life here.

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El Expatriado says on Aug 29, 2009, 02:23:

Desiria, sorry to be honest with you, but ant respect Inhad for you went right down the toilet. The guy is a total idiot.

Chris, you've never been to Venezuela and sees whathappens there. The guy has absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever. The only people who like him in Venezueala are those with less than a grade 10 education, because they can't sunderstand what's going on.

All the competent technical and busiess people are leaving in droves. I hAd people coming into my office crying, saying they want out of thee, can I get them a job in Canada anywhere.

Yes , he stands up to the corporations- by not paying his contracts and bills. And the same with his political opponents. The whole oil industry is going down the tubes due to neglect. Any idiot can not pay the bils and say how bad "The Man" is. But in the end, that person is just another freeloading parasite living off of the rest of us.

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El Expatriado says on Aug 29, 2009, 02:40:

OK Chomsky's a Linguistic Genuis, but he should stick to Linguistics and stay out of politics. Espescially buddying up with repressive regimes, like he likes to critisize others for doing.

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JGD (☼Travelguide writer) says on Aug 29, 2009, 04:41:

"All the competent technical and busiess people are leaving in droves."
You wouldn´t believe how the engineer´s job market in COL is flooded with Venezuelan ex PDVSA workers.

You are worried the US is going to invade and take the Venezuelan oil?... you are selling everything to them !!Peruvian Pres. Alan Garcia to Chavez

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makopp5 (☼Travelguide writer) says on Aug 29, 2009, 05:18:

He is a tipical social system lover who never would like to live in a socialistic country because he can not earn the same money like in a capitalistic society. Like most of the others: "I like socialim, but just that it not really touches me".

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Chriscan (☼Travelguide writer) says on Aug 29, 2009, 07:38:

Politics has a lot to do with Language. The Canadian government just banned the words "child soldier" a couple of days ago.

Enhanced interrogation, axis of evil, ungoverned spaces, enemy combatant, rendition, elected dictator,

One needs an linguist to see through the wool that the government pulls over our eyes.

Beam me up Scotty; No intelligent life here.

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vladimiro says on Aug 29, 2009, 07:56:

hehe or waging aggressive war and calling it "liberation" :)

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quantum says on Aug 29, 2009, 12:24:

Ive been reading Noam Chomsky and generally nodding my head in agreement with him for many years. But he still refuses to acknowledge that 911 was an inside job despite the overwhelming evidence, and now, hes exited by the "new model" emerging in Venez.? Gimme a break Noam..........time to wake up from academic dreamland.........

quantum

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El Expatriado says on Aug 30, 2009, 04:42:

JGD said "All the competent technical and busiess people are leaving in droves."
You wouldn´t believe how the engineer´s job market in COL is flooded with Venezuelan ex PDVSA workers.

Have you ever been to Ft. MacMurray, Alberta? Venezuelanos are the second biggest group, after Newfies.

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El Expatriado says on Aug 30, 2009, 04:46:

Yeah 911 was an inside job, and we have several 100,000 people covering it up, just like the fake lunar landings. Maybe they are all really aliens like in Men in Black.

Boy some people really like to participate in the local mood enhancing vegetables here in Colombia.

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El Expatriado says on Aug 30, 2009, 04:49:

The reason Chomsky doesn't want to give in to the 911 consiparacy,is that it is accepted as 100% fact in the Arab and Muslim world, and they believe that Isreal planned and abetetd in it. Now Chomsky is anti-Isreal, but he is a Jew, and he doesn;t want to bye into the Jewish Conspiracy theory that has caused his people to suffer so much in history.

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El Expatriado says on Aug 30, 2009, 04:53:

The only real conspiracies are the conspiracies themselves.

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aztec says on Aug 30, 2009, 07:01:

What unmitigated hog wash!

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quantum says on Aug 30, 2009, 08:29:

Whats unmitigated hogwash is how they managed to turn up Mohamed Attas unscathed passport at the base of the world trade center after the implosion, as if were supposed to believe that it just fell out of the plane upon impact. Now tell me, doesnt that outlandish incident alone tell u just about everything u need to know about the "official version"?

quantum

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JGD (☼Travelguide writer) says on Aug 30, 2009, 13:01:

the bolivarian revolution is so marvelous that chavez didn´t want to share it with Unasur !!
what a patetic monkey

http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/noticia/79946/yo-no-quise-sacar-e...

You are worried the US is going to invade and take the Venezuelan oil?... you are selling everything to them !!Peruvian Pres. Alan Garcia to Chavez

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whitewidow says on Aug 31, 2009, 18:04:

you cannot argue the thermate evidence. it is absolute..... end of story.

I'm no doper! I just play one on TV.

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aztec says on Sep 1, 2009, 05:31:

When sulfur is added to thermite the result is called thermate.

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vinod says on Sep 2, 2009, 09:06:

Anybody who could possibly consider Chomsky an "intellectual" must be smoking some powerful dope.

No doubt he is desperately searching for a nation state that has adopted his socialist utopia and will not become a failed state.

I will say one thing though. Countries like Cuba and Venezuela, as undesirable as they may be, are still a step above the most miserable failed states on earth, which are in the islamic world (the likes of Pakistan and Somalia).

Maybe the knowledge of that is what gives Chomsky hope. There are still some who are beneath him.

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