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This week on Uprising —

* A special thanksgiving edition of Uprising featuring Noam Chomsky speaking at MIT on the “Four Current Crises in the Middle East.”

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The Four Current Crises in the Middle East

GUEST: Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT

We spend the hour today with Professor Noam Chomsky. According to Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the New York Times, Noam Chomsky “continues to challenge our assumptions long after other critics have gone to bed. He has become the foremost gadfly of our national conscience.” New Statesman correspondent Francis Hope praised Chomsky for “a proud defensive independence, a good plain writer’s hatred of expert mystification, a doctrine of resistance which runs against the melioristic and participatory current of most contemporary intellectual life.” Hope concludes: “Such men are dangerous; the lack of them is disastrous.” According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, between 1980 and 1992 Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any living scholar, and the eighth most cited source overall. He is a professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and revolutionized the field of linguistics.

He spoke at MIT on September 21st 2006 about the “four current crises in the Middle East.” Here is professor Noam Chomsky. Special thanks to Ralph Cole for recording this speech.

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” — Anais Nin.