When Nazi emissaries came to the United States, they were…

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

I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was practically no…

— Noam Chomsky

In general, the attitude towards Nazi Germany was not that hostile, especially if you look at the U.S. State Department reports. In 1937 the…

— Noam Chomsky

Take like, say, Obama, he's called "liberal" and he's praised for his "principled objection to the Iraq war". What was his "principled objection"? He…

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George Kennan is another extreme case. He was the American consul in Berlin until the war between Germany and the United States broke out…

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Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.

— Noam Chomsky

When I was growing up in the 1930s and '40s anti-Semitism was rampant. It wasn't like Nazi Germany but it was pretty serious -…

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The British had an even stronger [then America] business interest in Nazi Germany. And Benito Mussolini was greatly admired.

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It was reported in the left-wing press in the late 1930s that the Texas Company (Texaco), headed by the Nazi sympathizer Torkild Rieber, diverted…

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No liberal newspaper ever talked about the invasion of Vietnam; they talked about the defense of Vietnam. And then they were saying, "well, it's…

— Noam Chomsky

There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of early Nazi…

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Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resistance against…

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Power has to be protected from scrutiny. That's the principle of every dictatorship, of every autocracy. You hear it from high priests at Harvard…

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If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for…

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If you take a look at places like Harvard, it's striking. In the early ,50s, I think there were a handful of Jewish professors,…

— Noam Chomsky