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2010-07-30: Headlines
- The Faster Times: Lake of Fire 2010-07-30
Tips, suggestions, cool sites? | Owen Roberts is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York. | A journalist I met recently turned me on to the documentary Lake of Fire, released in 2006, to much critical acclaim.
- History News Network: Clark Merrefield: Inside Howard Zinns FBI Files 2010-07-30
History News Network Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too. | The historian and activist died in January, but the 400 pages the FBI compiled on him over 25 years are just being released. Friends Noam Chomsky and others tell Clark Merrefield what they mean.
- Paste Magazine: Record Store Doc Gets Released on DVD 2010-07-30
Brendan Toller's documentary on the threatened fate of independent record stores, featuring Patrick Carney (The Black Keys), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers), rock photographer Bob Gruen and Noam Chomsky, among others, was released Thursday nationwide. It was formerly available only in independent record stores, having been released on Record Store Day earlier this year. | The film, I Need That Record!
- truthout: Will WikiLeaks Help End the Afghan War? 2010-07-30
Will WikiLeaks Help End the Afghan War? | The brave hope of the soldier who sent 92,000 secret documents to WikiLeaks was that the disclosure of willful, casual slaughter of civilians by coalition personnel (with ensuing cover-ups), the utter failure of "nation-building,"
- Agoura Hills Acorn: Benefit to help fight pediatric brain tumors 2010-07-30
Yoga Works will host a benefit movie screening and concert by Los Angeles singers and performance artists to support the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Fri., Aug. 18 at Yoga Works, 2475 Townsgate Road, Westlake Village. | The film "What About Me?" will be screened. Other activities include a post-film reception with refreshments and a silent auction.
- The Economist: Military euphemisms 2010-07-30
ARMIES love euphemisms. They help to soften unpleasant talk of shooting things and killing people. The British Army's futuristic new tank is known as the Future Rapid Effects System, which like our recently-noted Military Information Support Operations manages to use four words to say nothing at all.
2010-07-29: Headlines
- Thousand Oaks Acorn: Film screening fundraiser to take place 2010-07-29
YogaWorks will host a benefit movie screening and concert by Los Angeles singers and performance artists to support the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Fri., Aug. 18 at YogaWorks, 2475 Townsgate Road, Westlake Village. | The film "What About Me?" will be screened before a postfilm reception with appetizers, refreshments and a silent auction.
- Venezuelanalysis.com: Latin America Twenty-First Century Socialism: Inventing to Avoid Mistakes 2010-07-29
Twenty years ago, left forces in Latin America and in the world in general were going through a difficult period. The Berlin Wall had fallen; the Soviet Union hurtled into an abyss and disappeared completely by the end of 1991. Deprived of the rearguard it needed, the Sandinista Revolution was defeated at the polls in February 1990, and Central American guerrilla movements were forced to demobilize.
- Progressive.org: State Dept Relents: Colombian Journalist Allowed to Come to Harvard. 2010-07-29
Twenty years ago, left forces in Latin America and in the world in general were going through a difficult period. The Berlin Wall had fallen; the Soviet Union hurtled into an abyss and disappeared completely by the end of 1991. Deprived of the rearguard it needed, the Sandinista Revolution was defeated at the polls in February 1990, and Central American guerrilla movements were forced to demobilize.
- Salon: The end of (military) history? 2010-07-29
The end of (military) history? | U.S. soldiers run to firing positions after coming under attack by Taliban insurgents in the Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, on July 27. | This article originally appeared on TomDispatch. | "In watching the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history."
- CounterCurrents.org: Israels War Against Palestine -- Now What? 2010-07-29
Israel's War Against Palestine -- Now What? | The past few years have proven to be particularly awful for the Palestinian people.
- The Economist: Language and thought 2010-07-29
Lost in translation? | IN LAST weekend's Wall Street Journal, which I'm just now getting around to blogging, a long article by Lera Boroditsky, a Stanford psychologist, sums up her work on language and cognition. In short, Ms Boroditsky is one of the few language scholars brave enough to be a neo-Whorfian: strongly embracing the notion that the language you speak affects the content of your thoughts in clear and measurable ways.
2010-07-28: Headlines
- Austin Chronicle: Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports 2010-07-28
While sports entertain many, behind the scenes the games are a mess akin to making sausage where you have a carefully packaged and attractive product constructed in an ugly and battered fashion. David Zirin leaves no stone unturned in his book Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports.
- Peoples Daily Online: Indian girl first to win gold medal at International Physics Olympiad 2010-07-28
While sports entertain many, behind the scenes the games are a mess akin to making sausage where you have a carefully packaged and attractive product constructed in an ugly and battered fashion. David Zirin leaves no stone unturned in his book Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports.
- News-Leader.com: Nothing Christian about principles 2010-07-28
While sports entertain many, behind the scenes the games are a mess akin to making sausage where you have a carefully packaged and attractive product constructed in an ugly and battered fashion. David Zirin leaves no stone unturned in his book Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports.
- BCLocalNews: Highlander hybrid has a lot of upside 2010-07-28
Twenty years ago, left forces in Latin America and in the world in general were going through a difficult period. The Berlin Wall had fallen; the Soviet Union hurtled into an abyss and disappeared completely by the end of 1991. Deprived of the rearguard it needed, the Sandinista Revolution was defeated at the polls in February 1990, and Central American guerrilla movements were forced to demobilize.
- CathNews: CathBlog 2010-07-28
What highly centralised authoritarian regimes hate and fear the most is scrutiny from within. What these organisations do from the outset is to establish 'defence mechanisms' of fear, intimidation, exclusion and isolation for those asking awkward questions or who appear to break ranks. Noam Chomsky calls this 'flak.' In a critique of self-protective institutions he wrote,
About Chomsky
Bangkok Post: 'Resonant and unwavering' 2008-07-14
Noam Chomsky talks to the 'Bangkok Post' about the Vietnam War, Burma and the future of the human race
Story by STUART ALAN BECKER
He opposed the Vietnam War long before it was fashionable to do so. He revolutionised the field of linguistics and helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology. He changed the way scientists approach the study of the human mind.
His "Chomsky Hierarchy" is taught in basic computer science because it offers insight into the nature of how languages are structured. His theories of Generative and Universal Grammar indicate that the human mind comes hard-wired with default settings that enable infants to quickly learn any language spoken around them.
When the US dropped the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Chomsky walked off into the woods to be alone and contemplate what he later called "one of the most unspeakable crimes in history".
For the last 50 years Avram Noam Chomsky, now in his 80th year, has been a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was voted No. 1 in the 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll, a list of the 100 most important living public intellectuals, compiled in November, 2005 by Prospect Magazine of the UK and Foreign Policy of the US on the basis of a readers' ballot consisting of more than 20,000 votes. ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� [more]