Noam Chomsky visits Dublin (videos links & Docs)

[Papa C.]

RTE News video interview, On the Iraq War and Rendition Flights, with Mark Little (January 19, 2006).
Video Link - dynamic.rte.ie/av/2108180.smil




University College Dublin video talk, Stark, Dreadful, Inescapable: The Question of Survival (January 19, 2006).
Video Link - www.heanet.ie/services/multimedia/videostreaming/ucd/chomsky/chomsky_20060119_video.asx



University College Dublin video talk, Democracy Promotion: Reflections on Intellectuals and the State (January 17, 2006).
Video Link - www.heanet.ie/services/multimedia/videostreaming/ucd/chomsky/chomsky_20060117_video.asx



Amnesty International Annual Lecture, The War on Terror (January 18, 2006). An excerpt:

"Terror" is a term that rightly arouses strong emotions and deep concerns. The primary concern should, naturally, be to take measures to alleviate the threat, which has been severe in the past, and will be even more so in the future. To proceed in a serious way, we have to establish some guidelines. Here are a few simple ones:

(1) Facts matter, even if we do not like them.

(2) Elementary moral principles matter, even if they have consequences that we would prefer not to face.

(3) Relative clarity matters. It is pointless to seek a truly precise definition of "terror," or of any other concept outside of the hard sciences and mathematics, often even there. But we should seek enough clarity at least to distinguish terror from two notions that lie uneasily at its borders: aggression and legitimate resistance.

Full Text - www.chomsky.info/talks/20060118.pdf

[batman]

I tried to get to one of his speechs but I couldnt make it.

It is people like Chomsky and Naomi Klein who can influunce young people and indeed have, in relation to anti-imperialism and anti-capitalism.

[Papa C.]

Big time. It's not just their argument though, it's how they present it which I admire. I'd love to see young anti-imperialists present arguments the way Chomsky does.

I didn't even know he was in Dublin. I would have been in there if I knew. I had to hear it off Prime Time on RTE.