Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning… — 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
Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nixon at one point informs Kissinger . . . that he wanted bombing of Cambodia. And Kissinger loyally transmits the order to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What can you do to mitigate the likelihood that Iran will develop nuclear weapons? There's a very simple method: move towards establishing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Activism spawned by Sanders campaign is beginning to make inroads into electoral politics. Under Barack Obama, the Democratic Party pretty much collapsed… — 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
You go into a hospital now, it's dangerous. We can get diseases that can't be dealt with, that are moving around the… — 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
If you look at say, England and Germany a century ago, which had the most advanced navies then, they were dealing with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Mikhail] Gorbachev said that he would agree to the unification of Germany, and even adherence of Germany to NATO, which was quite… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Venezuela is independent. It's diversifying its exports to a limited extent, instead of just being dependent on exports to the United States.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some of [Donald Trump] comments can be interpreted as potentially reducing the threat of nuclear war. The major threat right now is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military… — 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
If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring,… — 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