Benjamin Disraeli
Reporter: “Do you see yourself as more of a singer or a poet?”
Bob Dylan: “Well, I see myself as more of a song and dance man”
Bob Dylan, BBC4 biopic ‘Dylan’, by Martin Scorsese
On current trends, the Arctic will be entirely ice-free in September by about 2016, and will be ice-free year-round by the early 2030s.
Noam Chomsky on imperialist mentality, assassination and the criminality of western leaders
Click on the above link for a typically succinct, insightful, cutting and unreserved summary of i) the premeditated nature of Osama Bin Laden’s assassination in Pakistan, ii) the western imperialist mindset that attempts to paradoxically justify its own acts of international brutality and institutionalised evil via reference to the intrinsic ‘otherness’ of similar acts, with similarly underlying motives, effectuated (mostly) by non-Americans, and iii) the sweet irony in the statement that “countries ‘harbouring terrorists’ are as guilty as the terrorists themselves and, as such, should be treated accordingly”.
Noam Chomsky, in my opinion, is a genius.
