"The mass slaughter in Srebrenica, for example, is certainly a horror story and major crime, but to call it 'genocide' so cheapens the word."
Noam Chomsky on the Srebrenica Massacre, which left 8,000+ Bosniak Muslims dead.
"Russia is fighting more humanely than the US did in Iraq."
Noam Chomsky on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
"The US is living under a totalitarian culture much worse than Soviet Union."
Noam Chomsky on press freedoms in Russia as Russian demonstrators were being arrested for opposing the invasion of Ukraine.
"What filters through to the American public is a seriously distorted version of the evidence available, emphasizing alleged Khmer Rouge atrocities..."
Noam Chomsky on refugee accounts of genocide by Pol Pot's regime, which wiped out 25% of Cambodia's population.
“You can hardly accuse Iran of illegal or criminal behavior by supporting the [UN] recognized government of [Syria]."
Chomsky on Iranian involvement in the Assad regime mass-murder of 500,000+ Syrians.
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To the international leaders sincerely congratulating the Syrian people, thank you.
But it's not over: Syrians want to vote for their own leaders and live equally under the law.
Your role is to facilitate as needed and stop regional actors from abusing Syrians further.
Don't condemn the future of Syria before doing anything to safeguard the Syrian desire for a democratic transition.
Things are going to be messy after the fall of a half a century of tyranny.
Don't abandon Syrians now.
Speaking directly to the European leaders who previously sought to normalize with Assad:
If you do nothing or sabotage efforts to promote safety and stability in Syria now, you are barring refugees in your countries from making voluntary returns.
In 2015, Tulsi directed a tweet at her now fellow cabinet nominee Marco Rubio, encouraging him to support Russia's intervention in Syria, amid a joint Assad-Russia hospital bombing campaign.
Iran is a revisionist state. In the past decade it has aggressively and violently expanded its influence, not only in the region from Damascus to Baghdad to Beirut to Sanaa, but across the globe. It is seeking a nuclear weapon.
This is not political commentary. This is a fact.
A fact that is frequently ignored by pundits and commentators who insist on painting Iran as a victim, and the status quos of misery it has created across the region as normal and peaceful.
Iran has agency, and it has exercised it forcefully.
No one forced Iran to back the Houthi campaign of terror in Yemen.
No one forced Iran to come to the aid of Bashar al-Assad's mass-murder campaign in Syria.
No one forced Iran to fund terror in Lebanon, Iraq, and beyond.
Can any of these viral posts claiming that hospital-issue pagers were being blown up provide any actual evidence, because the viral "civilian health worker" who was confirmed dead from a pager explosion just had his funeral.
I really do not understand where this claim originated from, considering that not even Hezbollah / Iran state media are reporting explosions of hospital-issue pagers.
And again, random civilians are not carrying pagers. And the only group that would, medical staff, were not having their hospital-issue pagers explode.
This is not in contention anywhere except Twitter.
Random civilians are not carrying pagers in Beirut in the year of our lord 2024. Can we be serious please.
Regardless of what you think about the attack morally — even pro Hezbollah media is not making this claim.
Hezb members openly use pagers to communicate. The viral claim that hospital pagers were targeted is obviously false. See video below about the "new pagers" Hezb recieved.