- The Guardian says sorry to Noam Chomsky.
- Journalist James Fallows wishes the Bush administration would face reality over Iraq.
- The new US ambassador to New Zealand helps the spread of freedom, democracy and understanding to the outer province.
- A Mongolian blog explains what George W. Bush can expect during his upcoming visit:
"Yes, Mongolians are quite friendly toward Americans. But as any foreigner who's been to Mongolia can tell you [I was there in 2000 and found the country and people beautiful], Mongolians give warm hospitality to just about anyone who happens by their ger [tent] regardless of the traveller's passport."
- An American Zionist leader claims lobbying of the American administration regarding Israel is not uncommon but he is personally against it. Really:
"Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, said it was not uncommon for Jewish organizations to lobby the administration to exert pressure on Israel. Foxman himself opposes such activity, but said the IPF, Americans for Peace Now and sometimes the Reform Movement all engage in it."
- Journalist James Fallows wishes the Bush administration would face reality over Iraq.
- The new US ambassador to New Zealand helps the spread of freedom, democracy and understanding to the outer province.
- A Mongolian blog explains what George W. Bush can expect during his upcoming visit:
"Yes, Mongolians are quite friendly toward Americans. But as any foreigner who's been to Mongolia can tell you [I was there in 2000 and found the country and people beautiful], Mongolians give warm hospitality to just about anyone who happens by their ger [tent] regardless of the traveller's passport."
- An American Zionist leader claims lobbying of the American administration regarding Israel is not uncommon but he is personally against it. Really:
"Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, said it was not uncommon for Jewish organizations to lobby the administration to exert pressure on Israel. Foxman himself opposes such activity, but said the IPF, Americans for Peace Now and sometimes the Reform Movement all engage in it."
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I hear McCormick knows where he is.
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People,
May we keep the advertising to a minimum?
I've been guilty myself, but moderation please!
If you're selling shares in Halliburton, that's alright, but really...
Viz. the Guardian interview, it is telling that Chomsky has declined to accuse Brockes of inventing any of his actual quotes. He opts only for making the inspecific and unfalsifiable charge that she "[invents their] contexts". The Guardian's retraction says nothing about the fidelity with which Chomsky's statements were rendered. Therefore, the ones that stand alone should be considered accurate until Chomsky specifically and credibly disputes them.
The Srebrenica controversy has eclipsed the fact that Chomsky minimizes another set of atrocities in a different part of the interview: those of the European pogroms against the Jews. Chomsky refers to them as "not very bad, by contemporary standards". This is outrageously false, as an examination of the historical record shows. Chomsky's minimization of the pogroms, which taken as a whole (from the 16th to the 20th Centuries) claimed an estimated 300,000 Jewish lives, cannot be vindicated by an appeal to "invented contexts".
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