ISIS is a monstrosity. It didn't come from nowhere. It's one of the results of the U.S. hitting a very vulnerable society… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take the Iraq War,it's the second worst crime after the Second World War. It's the first time in history, in the history… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Genocide" is an invidious word that officials apply readily to cases of victimization in enemy states, but rarely if ever to similar… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've occasionally been asked to talk on Israel-Palestine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it elicits hysteria in the community. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was no direct way to prevent the Boston murders. There are some easy ways to prevent likely future ones: by not… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Israel produces and stores chemical weapons. So therefore the US will prevent the Chemical Weapons Convention from being imposed on the Middle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Another thing they talk about a lot is water—and that’s a very crucial thing, which is not discussed very much in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A 1998 study was done in Hebrew by an Israeli scholar, Yosef Grodzinsky, and the English translation of the title is Good… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In September 2002 the Bush administration announced its National Security Strategy, which declared the right to resort to force to eliminate any… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For thirty years, Isreal has been highjacking ships in international waters, killing people, taking hostages, bringing them to Israel, putting them in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I still think, despite everything, that the US is very unlikely to attack Iran. It could be a huge catastrophe; nobody knows… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What can you do to mitigate the likelihood that Iran will develop nuclear weapons? There's a very simple method: move towards establishing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A large part of the left is pro-Assad. In those circles, you can't criticize Assad, but you know he's a monstrous war… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Zionist movement based in Palestine pretty much took over the camps and instituted the policy that every man and woman between… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is the Godfather when it establishes edicts. Others had better live up to them, or else. We have to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was a striking example of this in Pakistan when the US sent in Special Forces, to be honest, to kill Osama… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
