I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am not offering this is a critique of the internet, its just that there are a lot of factors involved. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It was reported in the left-wing press in the late 1930s that the Texas Company (Texaco), headed by the Nazi sympathizer Torkild… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you look at the Associated Press wires, there's a constant flow of information coming in. At that time I happened to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even in a largely depoliticized society such as the United States, with no political parties or opposition press beyond the narrow spectrum… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The literature is like that - they [unions] are constantly talking about the masses, the danger they pose, and how to control… — 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
In the 1960s, various parts of the population became energized and began to enter the public arena to call for the rights… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's kind of a hidden point which isn't being brought out, and that is that it is inconceivable that the U.S. would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Orwell says straight, look, in England what comes out in a free country is not very different from this totalitarian monster that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public. — 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 media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital… — 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