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Khaleej Times Online >> Columnist >> NOAM CHOMSKY
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 | The Somalia syndrome THIS poor country keeps taking one blow after another," Peter Goossens observed two months ago in an interview with The New York Times' Jeffrey Gettleman. "Ultimately, it will break." The country is Somalia, and Goossens directs the World Food Programme, which is now feeding some 1.2 million people there, 15 per cent of the population. | |
| Waiting for Annapolis THE crimes against Palestinians in the occupied territories and elsewhere, particularly since the Palestinians voted "the wrong way" in the Hamas victory last year, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims, and is likely to harm them. | |
| Derailing a deal NUCLEAR-armed states are criminal states. They have a legal obligation, confirmed by the World Court, to live up to Article 6 of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which calls on them to carry out good-faith negotiations to eliminate nuclear weapons entirely. None of the nuclear states has lived up to it. | |
| Options on the table IN WASHINGTON a remarkable and ominous campaign is under way to | |
| Guillotining Gaza THE death of a nation is a rare and sombre event. But the vision of a unified, independent Palestine threatens to be another casualty of a Hamas-Fatah civil war, stoked by Israel and its enabling ally the United States. | |
| US-Iran policy dynamics IN CRUDE and brutal societies, the Party Line is publicly proclaimed, and it must be obeyed, or else. What you believe is your own business, of lesser concern. In societies where the state has lost the capacity to control by force, the Party Line is not proclaimed. Rather, it is presupposed, and then vigorous debate is encouraged within the limits imposed by unstated doctrinal orthodoxy. | |
| Starving the poor THE chaos that derives from the so-called international order can be painful if you are on the receiving end of the power that determines that order�s structure. Even tortillas come into play in the ungrand scheme of things. | |
| The new Cold War IN the energy-rich Middle East, only two countries have failed to subordinate themselves to Washington's basic demands: Iran and Syria. Accordingly both are enemies, Iran by far the more important. | |
| Tasting blood WASHINGTON�S escalation of threats against Iran is driven by a determination to secure control of the region�s energy resources. | |
| What�s at stake? IN THE West, some of the most important information about Iraq remains either ignored or unspoken. Until this information is taken into account, proposals about US policies in Iraq will be neither morally nor strategically sound. | |
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