Paul Eccles Blog

I found the previous link, the review of Kissinger’s memoirs in the White House by Chomsky, in an introduction to his book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “The Fateful Triangle”. Originally published in 1983, it was revised in 1999 and again in 2015. The book is, as Edward Said said, “maybe the most ambitious book ever […]

I was reading today when I found this chapter from a Chomsky book, titled “Towards a New Cold War” (1982), chapter six where he reviews Kissinger’s epic 1500 page memoirs. He totally mocks Kissinger’s historical ignorance and naïveté, even of elementary historical notions, like the role of US power in the Cold War, The Marshall […]