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	Noam Chomsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, often considered the most significant contribution to the field of theoretical linguistics of the 20th century.
		Chomsky is also widely known for his political activism, and for his criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments.
		Chomsky has elaborated on this, saying that "the beauty of [concision] is that you can only repeat conventional thoughts", and that if the media were better propagandists they would let dissidents on more because the time restraint would stop them properly explaining their radical views and they "would sound like they were from Neptune".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Noam_Chomsky (8148 words)

	Chomsky, Noam on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chomsky and other linguists who built on his work formulated transformational rules, which transform a sentence with a given grammatical structure (e.g., “John saw Mary”) into a sentence with a different grammatical structure but the same essential meaning (“Mary was seen by John”).
		Chomsky is a prolific author whose principal linguistic works after Syntactic Structures include Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (1964), The Sound Pattern of English (with Morris Halle, 1968), Language and Mind (1972), Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar (1972), and Knowledge of Language (1986).
		Chomsky's controversial bestseller 9-11 (2002) is an analysis of the World Trade Center attack that, while denouncing the atrocity of the event, traces its origins to the actions and power of the United States, which he calls “a leading terrorist state.”
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/chomsky.asp (761 words)

	Oliver Kamm: Chomsky and deception
		What I find especially disturbing about Chomsky’s methodology is that in every case (forgivable in a speech, but not in a book that’s decked out with the appearance of scholarship) he drops the page references that would enable his readers to check his claims.
		Finally, note the trickery involved in Chomsky’s remark, “A sign of the success [Moynihan] adds, is that within a year, ‘the subject disappeared from the press.’” Moynihan says nothing at all about a disappearance of press coverage being “a sign of success”.
		Chomsky has taken a genuine quotation, wrenched it out of context, and provided a new context that clearly conveys to the reader that the words “a sign of success” are an accurate paraphrase of what is to be found in the book.
	oliverkamm.typepad.com /blog/2004/10/chomsky_and_dec.html (1091 words)

	Chomsky hierarchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chomsky hierarchy is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars that generate formal languages.
		This hierarchy of these grammars which are also called phrase structure grammars was described by Noam Chomsky in 1956 (see [1]).
		The following table summarizes each of Chomsky's four types of grammars, the class of languages it generates, the type of automaton that recognizes it, and the form its rules must have.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy (707 words)

	Noam Chomsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chomsky, an instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, used his linguistic background to create a grammatical format that transformed linguistics.
		Avram Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		Chomsky's childhood interest in the Spanish Civil War led him to the bookstores of New York and a political culture influenced by anarchism.
	www.ferrum.edu /lwhited/eng461/bios/chomsky.htm (257 words)

	Chomsky lies: denial of the Khmer Rouge holocaust in Cambodia.
		Chomsky and Herman find that “space limitations preclude” them from providing any examples of “repeated discoveries that massacre reports were false”, yet strangely they have plenty of space for a lengthy polemic about a photograph that may have been a mere re-enactment of real events, rather than a genuine photograph of real events.
		Chomsky neglects to mention that the evacuation was not under the control of the journalists — the foreigners were captives of the Khmer Rouge, and Schanberg concluded that the reason they saw no corpses was because the Khmer Rouge made sure they did not.
		Chomsky leads the reader to believe that a well informed person, someone who reads prestigious news magazines like the Economist, who reads magazines targeted primarily at the wealthy, someone affluent and cultured, would not believe the stuff about democide, that that business about democide was just lowbrow propaganda for the ignorant trailer trash masses.
	www.jim.com /chomsdis.htm (9940 words)

	Iraq is a trial run Chomsky interviewed by Frontline
		Noam Chomsky, University Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founder of the modern science of linguistics and political activist, is a powerhouse of anti-imperialist activism in the United States today.
		Chomsky : I wouldn't call it diplomacy at all - it's a failure of coercion.
		Chomsky : Oh no. First, the question is not asked, so no one has an idea of what the consequences of the bombing were for most of the country.
	www.ccmep.org /2003_articles/Iraq/040203_iraq_is_a_trial_run_chomsky_inte.htm (3155 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky: Part II Method and Madness by David Horowitz
		Chomsky never names the actual people who agreed that American policy should be world dominance, nor how they achieved unanimity in deciding to transform a famously isolationist country into a global power.
		Chomsky also blames the United States and the Vietnam war for the fact that "Vietnam is a basket case" and not a good example.
		Chomsky is, in fact, the imam of this religious worldview on today’s college campuses.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1018 (3611 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky by David Horowitz
		Chomsky’s use of this incident to diminish the monstrosity of the terrorist attack is a typical Chomsky maneuver, an accurate measure of his instinctive mendacity, and an index of the anti-American dementia, which infuses everything he writes and says.
		Chomsky’s deception which attempts to erase the victims who were not merely "janitors, secretaries, firemen, etc.," tells us more than we might care to know about his own standard of human concern.
		Chomsky’s message to his disciples in this country, the young on our college campuses, the radicals in our streets, the moles in our government offices, is a message of action and therefore needs to be attended to, even by those who will never read his rancid works.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1020 (2855 words)

	Noam Chomsky
		Chomsky says that children are born with a knowledge of the principles of the grammatical structure of all languages, and this inborn knowledge explains the success and speed with which they learn language.
		Chomsky's studies on political and social issues are strong with intelligent criticism.
		A long-time political activist, Chomsky is the author of numerous books and articles on US foreign policy, international affairs, human rights, modern history, American political life, and peace movements.
	www.sk.com.br /sk-chom.html (526 words)

	My Very, Very Allergic Reaction to Noam Chomsky: Khmer Rouge, Faurisson, Milosevic: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chomsky is quoted out of context: he's defending Faurisson's right to free speech according to the principles of Voltaire, not endorsing or defending Faurisson.
		Chomsky is an undeniably brilliant man, certainly in his field (regardless of where he's right or wrong; that's a separate issue from brilliance).
		I'm not a Chomsky "defender" by ANY stretch of the imagination, but I do think that instead of resorting to personal slanders against the man (sleazeball, nut-boy loon) which, lets face it, is a pretty low level of intellectual discourse, one might be better off refuting his arguments at their best.
	www.j-bradford-delong.net /movable_type/archives/000155.html (7443 words)

	The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates: Chomsky-Haters Again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He has even published a long take-down of Chomsky, which, befitting a bright person, is well-written and cleverly crafted (though do see the first comments on the posting by one Simon Kisby).
		But DeLong, and other Chomsky haters, aren't content with engaging Chomsky in argument: they have to establish that he is beyond the pale, that he is intellectually corrupt and dishonest, that it is no longer necessary to take him seriously.
		Chomsky just isn't one of them, indeed, isn't even close, isn't even on the same planet as these pathological liars and noxious mediocrities.
	webapp.utexas.edu /blogs/archives/bleiter/000863.html (361 words)

	Clara Magram on The Anti-Chomsky Reader on National Review Online
		Chomsky has become one of the all-stars of the radical Left because he embodies that distinct vitriolic passion, the paranoia of the self-hating Westerner.
		The U.S. effort in Vietnam, Chomsky alleged, was part of a "long-term effort to reduce Eastern Asia and much of the rest of the world to part of the American-dominated economic system"; anti-Communism was merely a convenient device for garnering support for the war.
		Chomsky's willingness to whitewash the Vietnamese Communists as earnest, idealistic peasants — as well as his studied avoidance of the terms "Leninist" and "Stalinist" — demonstrates that he was unwilling to face important truths about the ideological dimension of the Vietnam conflict.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/magram200407190845.asp (664 words)

	The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky by Keith Windschuttle
		Chomsky was not himself a member of the student generation—in 1968 he was a forty-year-old tenured professor—but his lack of party membership or any other formal political commitment absolved him of any connection to the Old Left.
		In fact, Chomsky was well aware of the degree of violence that communist regimes had routinely directed at the people of their own countries.
		Chomsky mocked their total and picked at their sources, showing some were dubious and that a famous photograph of forced labor in the Cambodian countryside was actually a fake.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/21/may03/chomsky.htm (5630 words)

	City Journal Summer 2002 \| America’s Dumbest Intellectual by Stefan Kanfer
		Chomsky’s title for his new book may have a little to do with its best-seller status: some people may have picked it up assuming it to be a newsworthy account of September 11.
		Chomsky claimed instead that when we learn a language as children, we can articulate and understand all sorts of sentences that we’ve never actually come across before.
		On the rare occasions in 9/11 when Chomsky expresses condolences for the victims of the terrorist attack, he immediately goes on to excoriate the U.S. The atrocities were passionately deplored, even in places where people have been ground underfoot by Washington’s boots for a long, long time,” he typically says.
	www.city-journal.org /html/12_3_urbanities-americas_dumbe.html (1937 words)

	Testing Chomsky
		The work of Noam Chomsky rejects both the benign and democratic image of US foreign policy and the prevailing post-Cold War discontinuity thesis.5 For Chomsky, post-Cold War US foreign policy is characterised by overwhelming continuities with its earlier Cold War concerns, and continues to be malign and anti-democratic when US elite demands are opposed.
		Chomsky's work thus goes against the prevailing consensus within IR as a discipline and provides a radically different interpretation of post-Cold War US foreign policy than that of both mainstream and some of the more critical IR theorists.
		Chomsky employs a revisionist historical interpretation of the Cold War which challenges the pre-supposition that the USSR was inherently aggressive and threatening to Western security during the Cold War and that US foreign policy was primarily driven in relation to these threats.
	www.aqnt98.dsl.pipex.com /choms.htm (5678 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Anti-Chomsky Reader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This meticulously documented article exposes Chomsky's collaboration with neo-Nazi groups and individuals in France and examines this in the light of Chomsky's poisonous and rabid loathing of Israel.
		May it be so with Chomsky's falsehoods and distortions, his hatred of America and Israel, and his adoration of dictators and genocidal ideologies.
		CHOMSKY: I was attracted to anarchism as a young teenager, as soon as I began to think about the world beyond a pretty narrow range, and haven't seen much reason to revise those early attitudes since.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/189355497X?v=glance (4034 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (The Open Media Pamphlet Series , No 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chomsky's classic back-pocket primer on U.S. government propaganda and media bias, now available in an edition expanded to include his comments regarding media coverage of terrorism and U.S. foreign policy in a post-September 11 world.
		Chomsky's focus is on the foreign policies of the US, but one can easily extend his thesis to simple domestic uses of propaganda.
		Chomsky questions the quality and motives of the media in the U.S. In this is a very small book, just 100 pages of large-font writing, he gives a brief history of propaganda mechanisms, especially in the U.S., from the Creel Commission in 1916 through the G.H.W. Bush administration.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1888363495?v=glance (2426 words)

	Heads: Chomsky's Right; Tales: His Critics Are Wrong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The United States was in the midst of a bombing Afghanistan, which opponents of the war and some international aid agencies said would ultimately make it more difficult to get food aid to parts of Afghanistan that were facing serious problems even before U.S. involvement.
		And, something you won't likely hear from Chomsky, thousands of women are returning to work for the first time in years in programs sponsored by the World Food Program.
		Like those he criticizes in the mainstream media, Chomsky is apparently never one to let facts get in the way of his theories.
	www.leftwatch.com /articles/2001/000143.html (725 words)

	The New York Review of Books: CHOMSKY'S REVOLUTION
		They are the conjectures about language that Chomsky's predecessors in linguistics either never entertained or resisted most assiduously when first set forth, and which contemporary linguists who reject the Chomskian program seek to replace.
		In my review of Noam Chomsky's book I pointed out that the original goals of what I had thirty years ago described as a "revolution," and the explanatory apparatus that was supposed to achieve those goals, have been abandoned.
		Chomsky insisted that linguistic competence was not merely a matter of phenomena described by rules but phenomena guided by them.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/15320 (1066 words)

	Noam Chomsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Noam Chomsky, a linguist at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, revolutionized linguistics with his innatist theory of language, but he is perhaps best known for his left wing political views.
		Although rarely receiving much attention from mainstream media, Chomsky is an icon on college campuses and within the radical political movement which formed from the ashes of the New Left.
		There is plenty of material on the web about Chomsky, but unfortunately almost all of it is bland hero worship which ignores the fact that while Chomsky is certainly right about many things, he is wrong about numerous others and is ultimately not all that far from those he subjects to intense scrutiny and criticism.
	www.leftwatch.com /FAQ/People/noam_chomsky.html (418 words)

	The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates: Chomsky Haters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		And do try to remember that Chomsky is a man of genuine intellectual accomplishment, having invented a real scholarly discipline in its modern form, and who participates at the highest level in theoretical debates in cognate fields.
		This might, at least, create a presumption that when he writes about subjects that make only modest intellectual demands--like foreign relations or politics--that he is unlikely to make gross mistakes, and that he may, in fact, have legitimate reasons for saying what he does.
		Many things might be said about Chomsky, but I assume it is uncontroversial that he is no fool, and he is not stupid.
	webapp.utexas.edu /blogs/archives/bleiter/000563.html (1179 words)

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