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Classics in Politics: Turning the Tide Noam Chomsky
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responding to an op-ed of Sept. 13 by Ilana DeBare; Walter Ruby,
Jerusalem Post, Aug. 21, 1984, Genesis 2, Sept. 1984; Americas
Watch, Human Rights in Nicaragua; Ignacio Klich, Le Monde
diplomatique (Dec. 1983); Stan Steinreich, Jewish Student Press
Service, Genesis 2 (Sept./Oct. 1983). For Rabbi Rosenthal’s reiteration
of the ADL charges, see Jewish Post, Sept. 5, 1984; Le Monde
diplomatique, June 1984.
86. Human Rights in Nicaragua.
87. COHA press release, Aug. 1985; Stephen Vaughn, Holding Fast the
Inner Lines (U. of North Carolina, 1980), 194. For discussion and the
broader context, see TNCW, chap. 1.
88. E.g., Moore, “Tripping through Wonderland,” who attributes to me the
claim that “progressive” forces such as Cuba, Nicaragua, and the
Salvador guerrillas, have an “exemplary human rights record”—what I
wrote is that their “abuses of human rights and democratic principle,
often real,” are not the cause of US opposition to Cuba and Nicaragua,
as is obvious from US support for far more violent regimes; the Salvador
guerrillas are not mentioned; the word “progressive,” which he repeatedly
gives in quotes, is his invention. Moore also speaks of my “commitment
to the radical regime,” non-existent of course, but Moore would have no
other way of interpreting heretical views with regard to the Holy State.
89. Jonathan Steele, London Review of Books, April 4, 1985.
90. On the technique of constraining debate within the bounds of the state
propaganda system, see TNCW and earlier work cited; also, my “Notes
on Orwell’s Problem” in Knowledge of Language (Praeger, 1985).
91. Randolph Ryan, BG, Aug. 27, 1985.
92. For much further discussion, see the references of note 90.
93. 1983 Report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
cited by Joanne Omang and Edward Cody, WP, March 11, 1985; Wayne
Smith, LAT, Aug. 25, 1985.
94. Joel Brinkley, NYT, June 5, 1985.
95. Connell-Smith, 23f., 343.
96. LASA report, cited above; Colman McCarthy, WP (MG Weekly, March