American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism.
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.
Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization - that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.
The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders.
In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.
In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States.
The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - meaning primarily the United States - come down to two fundamental issues: 'What are the accepted and applicable 'rules of world order,' and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?'