There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically… — 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
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
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That's unfortunately common - to blame immigrants, to blame the African-Americans who are being helped by federal programs, to blame anyone available,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We have to remember that literally within months after Castro's taking office the planes from Florida were beginning to bomb Cuba. Within… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Student debt is structured to be a burden for life. The indebted cannot declare bankruptcy, unlike Donald Trump. Current student debt is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's a principle that anything our leaders do is for noble reasons. It may be mistaken, it may be ugly, but basically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people that form movements around particular commitments, like gay rights. It is important, but it does not… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's a class war, and a war on young people too... that's why tuition is rising so rapidly. There's no real economic… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What is failure for some is success for others. It depends on where they stand in the struggles over "democratic governance" and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more… — 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 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