Response to Gad Saad and his "six degrees of Noam Chomsky thinking"

Gad Saad's attempt to repurpose the six degrees of separation theory^[1] to show how apparently "delusional" it is to suggest that United States foreign policy has a penetrating global influence, is barely anything new. Here, I will briefly explain why Saad's thought experiment is simply another confusing and misrepresentative attack, in the grand old line of such attacks, against those critical of the role played by the sole global superpower.

Response to Ian Williams' exchange with Noam Chomsky regarding Kosovo, humanitarian intervention, and East Timor

In August and September 2009, Ian Williams and Noam Chomsky exchanged articles on the website Foreign Policy In Focus^[1] concerning the Kosovo war and NATO military intervention. Here, I would like to evaluate Ian Williams' responses in that exchange.