Noam Chomsky
Peter Werbe
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
“States are simply not moral agents.”
Noam Chomsky is a major figure in 20th Century linguistics although best known for his social and political criticism. He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1955.
The following interview was conducted Oct. 31, 1993 by a Fifth Estate staff member who hosts a radio interview show on a Detroit station.
May 8, 2020 Read the whole text...
Noam Chomsky
The Current Bombing
< [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/353-summer-1999/kosovo-the-empire-at-war/][<strong>Kosovo: The Empire at War</strong>]]
The United Nations Charter bans force violating state sovereignty; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UD) guarantees the rights of individuals against oppressive states. The issue of “humanitarian intervention” arises from this tension. It is the right of “humanitarian intervention” that is claimed by the US/NATO in Kosovo, and that is generally supported by editorial opinion and news reports.
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