American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism.
Qatar-based 'Al-Jazeera,' the most important news channel in the Arab world, was harshly criticized by high U.S. officials for having 'emphasized civilian casualties' during the destruction of Falluja. The problem of independent media was later resolved when the channel was kicked out of Iraq in preparation for free elections.
In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly - 80-90%, numbers like that - Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don't like Iran - Arabs generally don't like Iran - but they didn't consider it a threat.
In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn - the climax of a 'day of awe,' as the press described it.
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.
If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
It could be - and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don't like it - that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.