There is Pakistan's relationship with Afghanistan which will also be a very tricky issue in the coming years. Then there is a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US is a country [in which] eighty percent of the population thinks the Bible was written by god. About half think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Sanders campaign showed that a candidate with mildly progressive programs could win the nomination, maybe the election, even without the backing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Somebodys paying the corporations that destroyed Iraq and the corporations that are rebuilding it. Theyre getting paid by the American taxpayer in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Well, they really didn't have to worry, because the way power politics works, the World Court can't do anything. Look, there's one… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton was the one pressing the hardest for bombing, and look at what happened. They not only destroyed the country, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Iran has been calling for it for years, and the Arab countries support it. Everyone except the United States and Israel support… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Western intellectuals, and also Third World intellectuals, were attracted to the Bolshevik counter-revolution because Leninism is, after all, a doctrine which says… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think half the population supports this ban on these dangerous immigrants who are going to come in and do something, who… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If [Respulicans] can't get rid of [Obamacare], they're going to have to tell their base, we've been lying to you for the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Suppose Vietnam could separate itself from the American dominated global system and carry out a successful social and economic development. Then that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Look at the ozone story. As long as it was the southern hemisphere that was being threatened, there was very little talk… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I had two spinster aunts who were seamstresses, and of course unemployed in the 1930s, but the union gave them a life.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I know of only one country, at least to my knowledge, which has a dissident culture where leading figures, I mean, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Latin America was the most obedient follower of the neoliberal regime that was instituted by the United States, its allies and the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Now take a look at the way the Drug War is conducted over the past 40 years. It goes back farther, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Kaplan can't understand trivialities. The triviality here is that nobody except the ultra right-wing jingoists like Kaplan are comparing atrocities by various… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Colombia was a big wheat producer in the 1950's. That was eliminated by what sounds like a nice plan, called "Food for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We're looking at the dawn of a new arms race. For example, Germany technically opposes the US space militarization program, but is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The manufacturing industry is starting to press for some kind of national healthcare. Now it's beginning to put it on the agenda.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The communists basically acted as the police force of the security system of the [Spain] Republic and were very much opposed to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The drug problem is in the United States, not in Mexico. It's a demand problem and that is to be dealt with… — 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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