It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a pretty serious problem. In fact, we'd probably… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I wrote about the Spanish Civil War many years later, I used documents that I picked up when I was a… — 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
The government of Rwanda, which is a US client, is intervening massively, and Uganda to an extent. It's almost an international war… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That's our nuclear weapons strategy [going to frighten people], as of the early post-Cold War years. And I think this is a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There have been repeated cases when nuclear war came ominously close, often a result of malfunctioning of early-warning systems and other accidents,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Remember that in any major nuclear war, the first strike destroys the country that attacks; it's been known for years. The first… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“But there's one word. You look at any other term of political discourse, and you're going to find the same thing: the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think religion has often played a very positive role. Take western civilization, the Catholic Church has played an honorable role in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We should recall that during the Second World War and the Great Depression there was an upsurge in popular, radical democracy. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Yeah, it's a bum rap, basically―it's like referring to Soviet-style bureaucracy as "socialism," or any other term of discourse that's been given… — 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
“A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Obama's latest line is that he didn't establish a "red line" but the world did through its conventions on chemical warfare. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is now well-known that the Taliban's creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By that time [1966], we did begin to get some protests [against Vietnam War]. But not from liberal intellectuals; they never opposed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had… — 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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