http://www.scribd.com/people/view/155870-ophelestas This a feed for documents on Scribd written by ophelestas 30 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:02:57 GMT Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:02:57 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/3487459/Noam-Chomsky-articles Noam Chomsky Articles *Bush's bankrupt vision Noam Chomsky Khaleej Times, June 1, 2008 In mid-May, President Bush travelled to the Middle East to establish his legacy more firmly in the part of the world that has been the prime focus of his presidency. The trip had two principal destinations, each chosen to celebrate a major anniversary: Israel, the 60th anniversary of its founding and recognition by the United States, and Saudi Arabia, the 75th anniversary of US recognition of the newly founded kingdom. The choices made good sense in the light of history and the enduring character of US Midd Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:02:57 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/3487459/Noam-Chomsky-articles http://www.scribd.com/doc/3131192/Noam-Chomsky-Good-News-Iraq-and-Beyond Noam Chomsky - "Good News," Iraq and Beyond Not long ago, it was taken for granted that the Iraq war would be the central issue in the presidential campaign, as it was in the mid-term election of 2006. But it has virtually disappeared, eliciting some puzzlement. There should be none. Iraq remains a significant concern for the population, but that is a matter of little moment in a modern democracy. The important work of the world is the domain of the "responsible men," who must "live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd," the general public, "ignorant and meddlesome outsider Wed, 28 May 2008 10:40:18 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/3131192/Noam-Chomsky-Good-News-Iraq-and-Beyond http://www.scribd.com/doc/3130852/Chomsky-United-states-of-Insecurity Chomsky - United States of Insecurity Based on an interview with Noam Chomsky conducted by Gabriel Matthew Schivone via telephone and e-mail at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 27, 2007 through February 11, 2008. Parts of the text have been expanded by the author. A State of Insecurity in the Post-9/11 World GMS: In a recent interview, Abdel Bari Atwan, author and editor of the Londonbased Arabic daily newspaper Al-Quds Al Arabi, said that President Bush is not ending terrorism nor is he weakening it, as is one of his strongest assertions in his so-called "War on Terror", Wed, 28 May 2008 10:28:35 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/3130852/Chomsky-United-states-of-Insecurity http://www.scribd.com/doc/2421817/Globalization-and-its-Discontents Globalization and its Discontents Noam Chomsky debates with Washington Post readers Washington Post, May 16, 2000, Lecturer and author Noam Chomsky will be online Tuesday, May 16 at 1 p.m. to discuss globalization, free trade and the vote to extend permanent normal trade relations to China. Chomsky is currently Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary issues, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. The author of numerous books, Chom Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:42:41 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2421817/Globalization-and-its-Discontents http://www.scribd.com/doc/2421809/corporate-social-responsibility U.S. Defense and Corporate Social Responsibility? Noam Chomsky interviewed by an anonymous interviewer C.P. Otero (ed.), Language and Politics, Black Rose, 1988, pp. 300-1 [April 8, 1981] CHOMSKY: I am asked "to address the subject of U.S. defense responsibility for the rest of the world and why America need not perpetuate this role." The question is unanswerable; there is no such role. States use their power to defend "the national interest," a mystification devised to conceal the special interests of those with domestic power. Typically, this policy is disguised in highsounding rhetoric, whi Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:40:57 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2421809/corporate-social-responsibility http://www.scribd.com/doc/1250805/Prohibition-of-Interest-in-Pakistan The Text of the Historic Judgment on Interest Given by the Supreme Court of Pakistan Introduction It was a momentous event, as big as the creation of the country itself. On 14 Ramadan 1420, the Shariah Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan gave its landmark decision banning interest in all its forms and by whatever name it may be called. Thus fifty-five years after its creation in the name of Islam (27 Ramadan 1365), Pakistan became the first Muslim country to officially declare modern (and rampant) bank interest as ar-riba, declared haram by Qur'an. The court also specified a step Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:53:01 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/1250805/Prohibition-of-Interest-in-Pakistan http://www.scribd.com/doc/1185860/Night-without-end Alistair Maclean, Night Without End Alistair Maclean Night Without End CHAPTER ONE – Monday midnight It was Jackstraw who heard it first – it was always Jackstraw, whose hearing was an even match for his phenomenal eyesight, who heard things first. Tired of having my exposed hands alternately frozen, I had dropped my book, zipped my sleeping-bag up to the chin and was drowsily watching him carving figurines from a length of inferior narwhal tusk when his hands suddenly fell still and he sat quite motionless. Then, unhurriedly as always, he dropped the piece of bone into the coffee-pan tha Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:24:24 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/1185860/Night-without-end http://www.scribd.com/doc/1185849/Bear-island Alistair MacLean, Bear Island Alistair MacLean Bear Island 1 To even the least sensitive and perceptive beholder the Morning Rose, at this stage of her long and highly chequered career, must have seemed ill-named, for if ever a vessel could fairly have been said to be approaching, if not actually arrived at, the sunset of her days it was this one. Officially designated an Arctic Steam Trawler, the Morning Rose, 560 gross tons, 173 feet in length, 30 in beam and with a draught, unladen but fully provisioned with fuel and water, of 14.3 feet, had, in fact, been launched from the Jarrow slipways Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:22:05 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/1185849/Bear-island http://www.scribd.com/doc/1185825/Ice-station-Zebra Alistair MacLean, Ice Station Zebra Alistair Maclean Ice Station Zebra To Lachian, Michael, and Alistair 1 Commander James D. Swanson of the U.S. Navy was short, plump and crowding forty. He had jet-black hair topping a pink, cherubic face, and with the deep permanent creases of laughter lines radiating from his eyes and curving around his mouth, he was a dead ringer for the cheerful, happy-golucky extrovert who is the life and soul of the party where the guests park their brains along with their hats and coats. That, anyway, was how he struck me at first glance, but on the reasonable assumpt Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:17:19 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/1185825/Ice-station-Zebra http://www.scribd.com/doc/1122669/Chomsky-Noam-Rethinking-Camelot Rethinking Camelot Rethinking Camelot JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture Noam Chomsky Copyright © 1993 Go to the Table of Contents Available in print from South End Press ($14 paperback, $30 cloth). To order by credit card, or for information on quantity discounts, call 800-533-8478, or write: South End Press 116 Saint Botolph St. Boston, MA 02115 Please add $3 shipping for the first book and 75 cents for each additional book. Archive | ZNet http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/rc/ [3/9/2003 12:11:39 PM] *Rethinking Camelot: Contents Rethinking Camelot JFK, the Vietnam War, and U. Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:53:25 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/1122669/Chomsky-Noam-Rethinking-Camelot http://www.scribd.com/doc/1121946/Whats-Behind-Benazir-Bhuttos-Assassination What's Behind Benazir Bhutto's Assassination? January, 05 2008 By Junaid Ahmad Source: Left Turn Benazir Bhutto, the "life chairperson" of Pakistan's largest and most popular political party, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), is now dead. Her assassination took place while she was campaigning for national and provincial assembly elections, scheduled for January 8. After the assassination rioting ensued throughout the country, particularly in Karachi and Bhutto's native province of Sindh, which have been aflame with protests and social unrest. The assassination and suicide bombing occurred in Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:43:02 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/1121946/Whats-Behind-Benazir-Bhuttos-Assassination http://www.scribd.com/doc/1121398/Using-Bhutto-for-Imperial-Gain Using Bhutto for Imperial Gain January, By Steve 16 2008 Lendman Benazir Bhutto led the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) as "chairperson for life" until her death. She was the privileged daughter of former Pakistan President and Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged in 1979 at the likely behest of Washington and replaced by military dictator General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. He later outlived his usefulness and died in a "mysterious" plane crash CIA may have arranged that allowed Bhutto to become Prime Minister in 1988. She sought the post to avenge her father's death and twice held it Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:34:35 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/1121398/Using-Bhutto-for-Imperial-Gain http://www.scribd.com/doc/1120763/A-Revolution-is-Just-Below-the-Surface A Revolution is Just Below the Surface A Revolution is Just Below the Surface October 04, 2007 By Noam Chomsky and Eva Golinger EVA: I read a quote of yours which said power is always illegitimate unless it proves itself to be legitimate. So in Venezuela right now we are in the process of Constitutional reform. And within that reform the People's Power is going to gain Constitutional rank, above in fact all the other state powers, the executive, legislative and judicial powers, and in Venezuela we also have the electoral and the citizen's power. Would this be an example of power becoming legi Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:26:05 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/1120763/A-Revolution-is-Just-Below-the-Surface http://www.scribd.com/doc/1120253/cold-war-II-chomsky Cold War II Cold War II August 27, 2007 By Noam Chomsky These are exciting days in Washington, as the government directs its energies to the demanding task of "containing Iran" in what Washington Post correspondent Robin Wright, joining others, calls "Cold War II."[1] During Cold War I, the task was to contain two awesome forces. The lesser and more moderate force was "an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever cost." Hence "if the United States is to survive," it will have to adopt a "repugnant philosophy" and reject "acceptable norms of Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:20:36 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/1120253/cold-war-II-chomsky http://www.scribd.com/doc/1119669/we-own-the-world-chomsky We Own The By Noam Chomsky You all know, of course, there was an election— what is called “an election” in the United States— last November. There was really one issue in the election, what to do about U.S. forces in Iraq and there was, by U.S. standards, an overwhelming vote calling for a withdrawal of U.S. forces on a firm timetable. As few people know, a couple of months earlier there were extensive polls in Iraq, U.S.-run polls, with interesting results. They were not secret here. If you really looked you could find references to them, so it’s not that they were concealed. Thi Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:13:46 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/1119669/we-own-the-world-chomsky http://www.scribd.com/doc/983209/quran ‫ ﺑﺴﻢ ﺍﷲ ﻭﺍﻟﺤﻤﺪ ﷲ ﻭﺍﻟﺼﻼﺓ ﻭﺍﻟﺴﻼﻡ ﻋﻠﻲ ﺧﻴﺮ ﺧﻠﻖ ﺍﷲ ﻭﻋﻠﻲ‬ ‫ ﺁﻟﻪ ﻭﺻﺤﺒﻪ ﻭﻣﻦ ﻭﺍﻻﻩ ﺃﻣﺎ ﺑﻌﺪ : ﻓﻬﺬﺍ ﻫﻮ ﺗﻔﺴﻴﺮ ﻣﻌﺎﻧﻲ ﺍﻟﻘﺮﺁﻥ‬ ‫ ﻟﻤﺤﺴﻦ ﺧﺎﻥ ٬ ﺃﺳﺄﻝ ﺍﷲ ﺍﻟﻜﺮﻳﻢ ﺃﻥ ﻳﻨﻔﻊ ﺑﻪ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﻠﻤﻮﻥ ﻭﻏﻴﺮﻫﻢ‬ ‫ ﻭﺭﺟﺎء ﺑﺄﻥ  ُﺮﺳﻞ ﻛﻞ ﻣﻨﺎ ﻭﻟﻮ ﻧﺴﺨﺔ ﻭﺍﺣﺪﺓ ﺇﻟﻲ ﺃﺟﻨﺒﻲ  Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:23:23 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/983209/quran http://www.scribd.com/doc/983175/The-Police-State-Road-Map- *The Police State Road Map March 2005 Edition Michael Nield www.policestateplanning.com Copyright © by Michael Nield 2004, 2005 All rights Reserved. Permission granted to reproduce for personal and educational use only. Commercial copying, hiring, lending is prohibited 1 The Police State Road Map (March 2005 Edition) www.policestateplanning.com *Contents PREFACE 5 Part 1 THREE HUNDRED TRILLION DOLLARS AND COUNTING Chapter 1 MONEY 10 1.1 The Money Magicians 1.2 The Banking Cartel Chapter 2 THE GREAT TRUST 16 2.1 The Military-Industrial Complex 2.2 Five Monopolies 2.3 Who Owns the Stock? Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:01:13 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/983175/The-Police-State-Road-Map- http://www.scribd.com/doc/983165/911-Synthetic-Terror- *9/11 SYNTHETIC TERRORISM MADE IN USA By Webster Griffin Tarpley © 2004 by Webster Griffin Tarpley *To my wife Leah and my daughter Chloe, for their love and support during the wilderness years. E s’io al vero son timido amico, Temo di perder vita tra coloro Che questo tempo chiameranno antico. Paradiso XVII, 117-120 *TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I – THE MYTH OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CHAPTER II – THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SYNTHETIC TERRORISM CHAPTER III – THE ROOTS OF 9/11: THE GLOBALIZED CRISIS OF THE 1990s CHAPTER IV: AL QAEDA: THE CIA’S ARAB LEGION CHAPTER V: C Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:57:18 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/983165/911-Synthetic-Terror- http://www.scribd.com/doc/983134/TheKarbala- In the name of God, the beneficent the merciful Think not of those who are slain in God’s way as dead. Nay, they live, finding their sustenance in the presence of their Lord. Holy Quran (3:169) T he events of Karbala reflect the collision of the good versus the evil, the virtuous versus the wicked, and the collision of Imam Hussain (the head of virtue) versus Yazid (the head of impiety). Imam Hussain (pbuh) was a revolutionary person, a righteous man, the religious authority, the Imam of Muslim Ummah (nation). As the representative of his grandfather Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), Imam Huss Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:31:40 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/983134/TheKarbala- http://www.scribd.com/doc/983128/Dr-IsrarLessons-From-History- Lessons From Hist'i I Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Two Muslim Communities Dr. Israr Ahmad *Lessons From History Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Two Muslim Comrnun'ifies Dr. Israr Ahmad Translated by Dr. Ahmed Afzaal Lahore Markazi Anjuman Khuddarn-ul-Qur'an 2004 *First Print Second Print Third Print Aug 1997 Oct 2000 Aug 2004 1,100 copies 1,100 copies 1,100 copies Printed at: Shirkat Printing Press Published by: Markazi Anjuman Khuddam-ul-Qur'an Lahore 36-K, Model Town, Lahore34700 Phone:586950 1-3 Fax:5834000 Email: aniuman@ta~izee~~i~t~rg Web Pa Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:25:20 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/983128/Dr-IsrarLessons-From-History-