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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 T...

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 ...

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 t...

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 car...

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,...

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-go...

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...

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 rioti...

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 out...

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, abo...