Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When something like this [2003 invasion of Iraq] takes place, the international law professionals have a complicated task. There is a fringe… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is the Godfather when it establishes edicts. Others had better live up to them, or else. We have to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[According to the rigid dogma] we have to believe the United States would have so-called liberated Iraq even if its main products… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the West, you don't get in any trouble if you tell the truth, but you still can't do it. Not only… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We have to recognize that there is a range of interests, like there isn't a single corporate interest and a single state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's just no question that the United States was trying desperately to prevent the independence of South Vietnam and to prevent a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Bush administration has created an unimaginable catastrophe in Iraq. This should've been one of the easiest military occupations in history and… — 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
Some of the younger people afford hope for the future. I am not opposed to reform initiatives. For example, if you can… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It happened: the first 9/11, it happened on September 11, 1973, in Chile. We did it. Was that interfering or hacking a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state. — 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
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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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