Classic chomsky on the boston bombings..

[Kara Dellacioppa]

And I dont mean that in a good way... The title says it all. We deserve it and everything is blowback. Even his referencing of Scahills work provides evidence of America's misguided policies. Funny he mentions Scahills work "dirty wars..." which is going to be a movie. I heard Jeremy Scahill the other day on KPFK touting his new book and soon to be movie, he pretty much absolves Obama of responsibility since so many structural forces were set in motion before he got into office, "He was misled by his advisors in the NSC..." Give me a break... Oh and the repubican wont give him money to close down gitmo so thats why he hasnt done it... Im sorry I used to love Chomsky and even got to speak to him on a couple of occasions. However he obfuscates way more than he enlightens....
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politic...road-every

oh and Thom Hartmann, thats another piece of work!

[Magda Hassan]

When he is good he is very good but yes, he sure can stink some times too.

[Jan Klimkowski]

Chomsky works within an analytical and philosophical model that he's developed over decades.

He is not an investigative reporter.

His acceptance of large parts of the Official Story of the Boston bombing is lazy and dangerous nonsense.

Just as his acceptance of large parts of the Official Story of the JFK assassination is lazy and dangerous nonsense.

However, his identification of the lazy hypocrisy of ordinary Americans and their sense of moral entitlement is entirely correct.

In the grand scheme of things, the Murder From Above of US drone strikes, frequently slaughtering innocent men, women and children, from some remote location, is as great a crime against humanity as the Boston bombings.

To be clear: the Boston bombings which killed innocent people were an atrocity.

The routine drone strikes in developing countries which maim and kill innocent people are an atrocity.

It's rare for privileged Westerners to see, graphically, what many others experience daily - for example, in a remote village in Yemen, the same week as the marathon bombings.

On April 23, Yemeni activist and journalist Farea Al-Muslimi, who had studied at an American high school, testified before a US Senate committee that right after the marathon bombings, a drone strike in his home village in Yemen killed its target.

The strike terrorized the villagers, turning them into enemies of the United States - something that years of jihadi propaganda had failed to accomplish.

His neighbors had admired the US, Al-Muslimi told the committee, but "Now, however, when they think of America, they think of the fear they feel at the drones over their heads. What radicals had previously failed to achieve in my village, one drone strike accomplished in an instant."

Rack up another triumph for President Obama's global assassination program, which creates hatred of the United States and threats to its citizens more rapidly than it kills people who are suspected of posing a possible danger to us someday.

The target of the Yemeni village assassination, which was carried out to induce maximum terror in the population, was well-known and could easily have been apprehended, Al-Muslimi said. This is another familiar feature of the global terror operations.

[Nathaniel Heidenheimer]

Is is becoming increasingly difficult for me to believe that Chomsky is not deliberate disinformation. I have started rereading Chomsky and his version of when the CIA was 13-16 is just beyond belief. As if written by CIA to delude the left. I simply do not think we can afford to not CONFRONT THIS HEAD ON. There is just too huge a sample size of mistakes that always take the CIA of the hook and preserve the illusion that the CIA was "always under the prez" Too big a sample size. Encounter Magazine.

[Lauren Johnson]

I have started rereading Chomsky and his version of when the CIA was 13-16 is just beyond belief.

Forgive me but what is "13-16."

[Tracy Riddle]

I've always had mixed feelings about Chomsky too. Same way I felt about Alexander Cockburn.

The CIA is just one part of the National Security State, and it's divided into at least two very different factions (Operations and Analysis). And since 9/11, it's been moved under Homeland Security. The NSA is probably much more powerful these days.

[Magda Hassan]

...
The CIA is just one part of the National Security State, and it's divided into at least two very different factions (Operations and Analysis)....

And with in those sections there are various political factions and power groups operating their own games.