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2010-09-03: Headlines

Washington Post: The Tillman Story tackles story of soldier lost to far more than friendly fire 2010-09-03
Of all the stories Americans love to tell ourselves, none is more seductive than the tragedy with a happy ending.
Newsweek: Why Xinhua, Chinas state news agency, could be the future of journalism. 2010-09-03
It had all the trappings of a globally significant confab: big-deal appearances (by Google, BBC), a weighty theme (€œthe digital age€), and speechifying by international pooh-bahs. Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of News Corp., even delivered a peppery keynote, vowing war on €œcontent kleptomaniacs.
Ottawa Citizen: Speaking no evil 2010-09-03
Division of Canwest Publishing Inc. | Man arrested in Ottawa terror probe freed on unrelated... | A man arrested but never charged in connection with an Ottawa terror investigation has been released on consent of the Crown. | If you can boost an economy with bricks, can you do the same with books? New research on the benefits of full-day kindergarten in Ontario answers that question with a yes, and offers a good re ...

2010-09-02: Headlines

World War 4 Report: 9-11 AT NINE 2010-09-02
The most useful propaganda device in this ongoing hostile take-over of the rump progressive forces has been an exploitation of the traumatic events of September 11, 2001. Alex Jones, who trumpets anti-immigrant bromides alongside 9-11 pseudo-exposÃ©s, now rivals Noam Chomsky as an icon on lefty websites.
Bloomberg: MSCI Forces Israel Sale Harvard Campaign Failed to Bring About 2010-09-02
Keywords: compared with about 3 percent of MSCI€™s emerging markets measure. | John Derrick, the director of research at San Antonio-based U.S. | according to data compiled by Bloomberg. | growth than other developed markets. | Palestinian territory by Israel. | Noam Chomsky, a linguistics and philosophy professor at MIT. | in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said in an Aug. 16 e-mail. | in Israel through those managers, Longbrake said.

2010-09-01: Headlines

OpEdNews: FOX NEWS Sucks. Noam Chomsky questions existence of Hipsters. 2010-09-01
Glad to see your lecture in China, really inspiring insight & advicein the Q&A section. Congratulations on the honorarydoctorate. | If not for this subliminal indoctrination, people like Noam Chomskywould have few readers, and terrorists would have no young Americansympathizers to call their own. You seethe hipster, often blessed with the luxury of never having had to earna living in the real world (no, college is not the real world)

About Chomsky

Bangkok Post: 'Resonant and unwavering' 2008-07-14

Noam Chomsky talks to the 'Bangkok Post' about the Vietnam War, Burma and the future of the human race

Bangkok Post

Story by STUART ALAN BECKER

He opposed the Vietnam War long before it was fashionable to do so. He revolutionised the field of linguistics and helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology. He changed the way scientists approach the study of the human mind.

His "Chomsky Hierarchy" is taught in basic computer science because it offers insight into the nature of how languages are structured. His theories of Generative and Universal Grammar indicate that the human mind comes hard-wired with default settings that enable infants to quickly learn any language spoken around them.

When the US dropped the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Chomsky walked off into the woods to be alone and contemplate what he later called "one of the most unspeakable crimes in history".

For the last 50 years Avram Noam Chomsky, now in his 80th year, has been a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was voted No. 1 in the 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll, a list of the 100 most important living public intellectuals, compiled in November, 2005 by Prospect Magazine of the UK and Foreign Policy of the US on the basis of a readers' ballot consisting of more than 20,000 votes. �� [more]