There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example,… — 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
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it. — 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
Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have never really thought that the Left was much in 'array' as far as political purposes were concerned. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's… — 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
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S.… — 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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