But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Camillo] Berneri proposed that the anarchists should link up with the effort of Northern Africa to overthrow the Spanish government, carry out… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I should say that Canada is one of the major criminals, not just the tar sands and so on, but even mining… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Bradley Manning should be regarded as a hero. He is doing what an honest, decent citizen should be doing: letting your population… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting question, whether the anarchists had alternatives [in Spain]. If they did tend to support the government that had been… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In every country except - industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's a lesser-known story, but the Japanese government (after the Russian-Nazi pact, which split Poland) did allow Polish Jews to come to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[The Republican Party] for example, they do run the House of Representatives, they're a majority there, and it's the House that is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The similarity is that concentration of capital influences virtually everything that goes on. It influences the way the media functions, it very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Maybe [the Republicans] 'll find ways around it, but the financial system of the world depends very heavily on the credibility of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“المثقف من حمل الحقيقة في وجه القوة ('cultured from carrying the truth in the face of power')” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are by now declassified documents from the 1950s that tells you a lot about what's going on in Egypt and we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Turkey also, for a long time, the military was the decisive force but in the past 10 years they have backed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them,… — 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
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