It's a lesser-known story, but the Japanese government (after the Russian-Nazi pact, which split Poland) did allow Polish Jews to come to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book called The Fugu Plan, written by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz, which describes the circumstances when European Jews… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For example, when my father was able to buy a secondhand car in the late 1930s, and he took us to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Finally Irish were accepted into society and became part of the political system, and there were Kennedys, and so on. But the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
After World War II there were many Jews who remained in refugee camps...President Harry F. Truman called for the Harrison Commission to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was also a national policy, which as a child I didn't know anything about. In 1924 the first major immigration law… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you take a look at places like Harvard, it's striking. In the early ,50s, I think there were a handful of… — 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
The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam… — 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
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