The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Governments are bigger than ever, but under neoliberalism they have far less pretense to being concerned with addressing non-corporate interests. And” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“At their most eloquent, proponents of neoliberalism sound as if they are doing poor people, the environment, and everybody else a tremendous… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Neoliberalism works best when there is formal electoral democracy, but when the population is diverted from the information, access, and public forums… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“One should attend carefully to the fear and desperation of the powerful. They understand very well the potential reach of the "ultimate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Chomsky also reveals how neoliberalism is hardly a new thing, but merely the current version of the battle for the wealthy few… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Neoliberalism is the defining political economic paradigm of our time—it refers to the policies and processes whereby a relative handful of private… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“however, is that there is no alternative. Communist societies, social democracies, and even modest social welfare states like the United States have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Similar things are happening in Africa, here, and in Europe. The indignados in southern Europe and the Occupy movements here are in… — 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
