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February 15th,
2005
| Prof
Noam Chomsky
The United States in the Middle East: Confronting Syria
Professor Chomsky explored the objectives and ramifications of
the US presence in the Middle East: oil, Iraq,
global planning, and more. A central point of
discussion was the recent US-Syrian
confrontations. He also commented on
developments on the Palestinian-Israeli front. A
60-minutes Q&A session followed.
Before the lecture, a moment of silence was
observed in memory of former Lebanese Prime
Minister Rafic Hariri, who was martyred the day
before. The Farewell Hariri tribute
shared by the President of the LCM
with the 400-person audience is
available here.
 Avram
Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an Institute
Professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and creator of the Chomsky
hierarchy, a classification of formal languages. His
works in generative linguistics contributed
significantly to the decline of behaviorism and led
to the advancement of the cognitive sciences.
Outside of his linguistic work, Chomsky is also
widely known for his radical left-wing political
views and his criticism of the foreign policy of
U.S. governments. Chomsky describes himself as a
libertarian socialist and a supporter of
anarcho-syndicalism. The term Chomskyan has come to
be used to refer to his ideas; however, Chomsky has
described such words (Chomskyan, Marxist,
Freudian...) as making "no sense in any science" and
belonging "to the history of organized religion".
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