Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For thirty years, Isreal has been highjacking ships in international waters, killing people, taking hostages, bringing them to Israel, putting them in… — 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
... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Pakistan is not a unified country. In large parts of the country, the state is regarded as a Punjabi state, not their… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is… — 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
The drug problem is in the United States, not in Mexico. It's a demand problem and that is to be dealt with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
... the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power. — 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
There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have a conservative tradition. The people who call themselves… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Work can be undertaken to create an authentic independent political party, a real party, based on popular participation from the ground up,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
United States has comparative advantage in military force. It tends to react to anything at first with military force, that's what it's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe...… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military… — 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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