{"id":10196,"date":"2009-11-13T04:17:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T18:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=10196"},"modified":"2009-11-13T04:17:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T18:17:36","slug":"oh-what-a-lovely-war-noam-chomsky-in-hardtalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=10196","title":{"rendered":"Oh! What a Lovely War \/\/ Noam Chomsky in HARDtalk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh! What a Lovely War<\/em> in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

And Iraq.<\/p>\n

And so far away!<\/p>\n

Better still, upon visiting Australian soldiers in ‘Kamp Holland’, PM KRudd has declared<\/a> that “We in Australia are here for the long haul… We from Australia will remain for the long haul.” Sadly, KRudd had to hop on a plane shortly thereafter, and will soon be (re-)joining other stay-at-home patriots back in Canberra, making his own personal ‘long haul’ a rather short one.<\/p>\n

In any event, Operation SLIPPER — involving approximately 1550 Australian soldiers — is going really well, apparently<\/a>, with billions upon billions of dollars flowing steadily into the bulging pockets of Afghani elites… tho’ a handful of children<\/a> are not getting enough to eat, and a few civilians<\/a> have been killed. And yeah, a few chicks are complaining<\/a>, but then, don’t they always?<\/p>\n

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Noam Chomsky in HARDtalk<\/h2>\n

Another wryly-amusing BBC skit. Uncle Noam plays the straight man — as usual — while Stephen Sackur<\/a> provides the laffs.<\/p>\n

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See also<\/em> : Noam Chomsky & the WSM discuss politics over breakfast<\/a>, Anarkismo, November 10, 2009.<\/p>\n

On O’Bama’s Presidential Campaign Finance ($747.8 million), see<\/em> Contributions to Obama, Barack by State Through 09\/30\/2009<\/a> (FEC); Banking on Becoming President<\/a> (Open Secrets).<\/p>\n

On ‘denazification’:<\/p>\n

As a final illustration of the callousness of the American response to what the mass media reveal, consider a small item in the New York Times<\/em> of 18 March 1968 headed, ‘Army Exhibit Bars Simulated Shooting at Vietnamese Hut’. The items reports an attempt by the ‘peace movement’ to disrupt an exhibition in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry<\/a>:<\/p>\n