Tickets on sale for Tucson talk on nuclear war with Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg ... Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who released the secret Pentagon Papers to the media, will join UA professor Noam Chomsky in Tucson to discuss concerns about the possibility of a nuclear war. Tickets for the ...

Nuclear war is topic at University of Arizona forum with Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg. By Joe Ferguson ... Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who released the secret Pentagon Papers to the media, will join UA professor Noam Chomsky in Tucson to discuss concerns about the possibility of a nuclear war.

Chomsky, considered the founder of modern linguistics, has been called one of the most influential public intellectuals in the world and America's most useful citizen. He's also authored more than 100 books on topics as wide-ranging as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Now he'll present a free ...

Halle and Institute Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky developed groundbreaking research together in the 1950s and 1960s — after Halle played a key role in bringing Chomsky to MIT in 1955. Together, Chomsky and Halle worked to specify the innate foundations dictating the structure of human ...

Whenever I need to understand the latest turn in US foreign policy, the first person I turn to is Noam Chomsky. His ability to cut through the fake news and highlight the real issues is simply unparalleled. Chomsky's political radicalism goes back to his early teenage years, but some later experience must ...

We recently interviewed Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. He shares his thoughts with the Institute for New Economic Thinking on foreign policy, dissent in the ...

Noam Chomsky is a renowned linguist, the author of an abundance of books and arguably the most famous dissident intellectual in the United States. He talks to Andy Heintz about US exceptionalism, the best way to approach North Korea and the truth about 'free trade agreements'. What do you see as the ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce the world premiere of Manufacturing Mischief, a new satirical play by Pedro Reyes that features puppet characters based on Noam Chomsky, Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, Elon Musk and "Tiny Trump." Making its world premiere at MIT's ...

Tucsonan Noam Chomsky, the renowned linguist and leftist, traveled to Hermosillo, Sonora, this week to deliver a presentation called “Gangster Capitalism.” He ended up meeting Thursday with leading Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who also was in town. “I don't present ...

The oil on linen paintings don't exactly feature blockbuster names, though there are a few, like social pundit Noam Chomsky, urban activist Jane Jacobs and investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald. Freeman started this series with a list of 150 names of political, civil rights and LGBTQ rights activists, then ...

Scholar Noam Chomsky and actor Danny Glover are among a group of over 154 activists who have condemned the sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the United States and Canada. In an open letter to Washington and Ottawa, the activists argued sanctions affected the poor and negatively impacted any ...

US linguist Noam Chomsky believes that the US military strategy under US President Donald Trump is moving toward world destruction. "With Trump, it [US military strategy] is becoming weaker, less effective, more disintegrated and loses all this authority and weight in the international arena, which it ...

In an interview with RT Spanish's “Conversation with Correa” host and Ecuador's former President Rafael Correa, renowned American philosopher and political scientist Noam Chomsky argued that US President Donald Trump's claims that he is making America greater, stronger and more powerful have ...

In a recent interview with Australia's ABC News, the renowned linguist and thinker Noam Chomsky offers a warning about the threat of nuclear war but maintains there's still reason to be positive. According to Chomsky, Donald Trump's victory wasn't the surprise that emerged from the 2016 election; the ...

7:30am – Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Here we featured selected clips from a talk based on the themes centered in his book Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of Mass Media authored with Edward Herman (Pantheon) ...

After the U.S. and Canada imposed sanctions on Venezuela's socialist government Friday, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover joined 154 signatories in an open letter to Washington and Ottawa condemning the sanctions. The letter explains that the sanctions will worsen political tensions and make life ...

For most Iranians who are tired of hearing the American neocon drums of war beat against Iran over and over again, right through the Bush, Obama and Trump eras, it is hard to know what to make of a recent interview that took place between Iran's Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights lawyer Shirin ...

Dr. Halle helped found MIT's linguistics program, one of the most important in the world, and played a key role in bringing to the faculty Noam Chomsky, who became one of the field's most significant figures. By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff April 07, 2018. To generations of linguistics students at the Massachusetts Institute of ...