<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b></b></div><p><em>[Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Noam Chomsky has been awarded this year’s Sydney Peace Prize, Australia’s only international peace prize. </em><p style="display: inline !important; "><em>This is a full transcript of Professor Chomsky’s City of Sydney
Peace Prize Lecture, “Revolutionary Pacifism: Choices and Prospects”,
reproduced with permission from the Sydney Peace Foundation.]</em></p></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><b>Noam Chomsky: can revolutionary pacificism deliver peace?</b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">"...we might recall a truism of Latin American scholarship, reiterated by
historian John Coatsworth in the recently published Cambridge University
History of the Cold War: from 1960 to 'the Soviet collapse in 1990, the
numbers of political prisoners, torture victims, and executions of
nonviolent political dissenters in Latin America vastly exceeded those
in the Soviet Union and its East European satellites.' Among the
executed were many religious martyrs, and there were mass slaughters as
well, consistently supported or initiated by Washington..."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">Full text at <<i><a href="http://theconversation.edu.au/noam-chomsky-can-revolutionary-pacificism-deliver-peace-4150">http://theconversation.edu.au/noam-chomsky-can-revolutionary-pacificism-deliver-peace-4150</a>>.</i></p>
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