The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The British had an even stronger [then America] business interest in Nazi Germany. And Benito Mussolini was greatly admired. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Part of the uprising of Latin America, particularly in the last 10 to 15 years, has been a reaction to [neoliberal regime],… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Most of the population in America is disenfranchised. It doesn't matter what they think. Just look at the passionate rhetoric about how… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“It's amazing in Europe: Europe has become extraordinarily colonized culturally by the United States, to an extent that is almost unbelievable―Europeans aren't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years,… — 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
Every wave of immigrants who came [to America] were treated pretty badly, but when they all finally became integrated, all of us… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All through Latin America, there's sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it's qualified by the observation that although… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are leaks from the Embassy in Honduras. There was a coup in 2009. Obama broke with most of Latin America and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Andes region is not stable. So we can expect to see more US intervention. It could be under any kind of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Most of intellectuals are false prophets, flatterers of the court. The real prophets are the exception and treated badly. How badly they're… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We don't have polls from the business world, but it's pretty clear that the energy corporations in America would be quite happy… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
South America has virtually broken away in the last decade. That's an event of historic significance. South America just doesn't follow US… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No one is concerned with Central America anymore. If a million people are facing starvation in northern Nicaragua and Honduras, it's none… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Latin America is all moving to the left, from Venezuela to Argentina with rare exceptions, but there's a good left and a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Politicians don't want democracy here in America, why would they want it in the Middle East? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“For example, take George McGovern [1972 Presidential candidate who campaigned on an anti-war platform]. George McGovern did not support the invasion of… — 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 Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — 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 long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
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