THANK YOU FOR POSTING THAT ARTICLE -- IT IS LONG BUT IT IS WELL WORTH READING ...
I am someone who cut his eye teeth on THE RESPONSIBILITY OF INTELLECTUALS -- and have gotten to know Noam Chomskiy personally over the years. So it was painful to read this article. I do think the writer is convincing --- and YES, for the most part Chomsky (as an American) has focused on US crimes --- not because he doesn't believe that other actors on the world stage are not capable of committing crimes against their own people and others but because he sees US citizens are primarily responsible for what our government does --- If this writer is correct that Chomsky has ignored information particularly about Syria and therefore has ended up on the "wrong side" of history, that is most unfortunate because he (Chomsky) has a fantastic international reputation. I do know that when he and his wife went to Lebanon and he interviewed the leader of Hezbollah he came away with a very balanced view of that movement --- and certainly in THE FATEFUL TRIANGLE (decades earlier) he delved deeply into the massacres at the two refugee camps in Lebanon perpetrated by Christian militias --- AGAIN -- if the writer is correct, obviously Chomsky has not done enough deep study into Syria --- None of that should take away from a lifetime of incredibly important contributions to our understanding of how the US ruling class rules and the international criminality of that ruling class -- from Vietnam to Latin America to the international "war on terror" --- On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 7:31 PM Dayne Goodwin via groups.io <daynegoodwin= [email protected]> wrote: > *Chomsky’s America-Centric Prism Distorts Reality* > *The author's perception of Washington's role in the world has ossified > into a theology*, with the U.S. as a malevolent God > Yassin al-Haj Saleh, a contributing writer at New Lines magazine, is a > Syrian author and former political prisoner > New Lines magazine, March 15, 2022 > > https://newlinesmag.com/review/chomskys-america-centric-prism-distorts-reality/ > _._,_._,_ > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30863): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30863 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106824716/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
