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Support Quotes by Noam Chomsky

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When a small country faces a powerful opponent, building popular support becomes a tough task. The quotes show how fear, nationalism, and big promises can rally people, while silence lets harmful ideas grow. They also note that younger voices can push for reform and hope.

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I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well…

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I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and…

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I happen to agree with the anti-dictatorship policies, but I don't think it's the role of General Electric to support them or…

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For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly.

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There was very little international support, even England wouldn't support [bombing of Syria], which is amazing.

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Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border…

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The developing world voice can be amplified enormously by support from the wealthy and the privileged, otherwise it's very likely to be…

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...jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of…

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From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course…

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I don't see how one can "believe in organized religion." What does it mean to believe in an organization? One can join…

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Elements of the Christian fundamentalist right are one of the strongest components of "support for Israel" - support in an odd sense,…

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One can contrive a religious motivation for virtually any choice of action, from commitment to the highest ideals to support for the…

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The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make…

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We [ with Edward Herman] believe that the empirical evidence we review there - and elsewhere, in a great deal of joint…

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You can't mention Hezbollah in the U.S. media without putting in the context of "Iranian-supported Hezbollah." That's its name. Its name is…

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People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or…

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Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative…

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The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good…

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South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime…

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To pay attention to the actual core of the movement - that would be pretty hard. Can you concentrate for example on…

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Take a look at the current debates in Washington, and of course, everything in the media. Only one issue is discussed: the…

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There are leaks from the Embassy in Honduras. There was a coup in 2009. Obama broke with most of Latin America and…

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Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to…

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If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the…

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It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support…

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Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits.

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The public is easily amenable to lies: the more lies there are, the greater the support for war. For instance, when the…

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[Barack] Obama was reaching a point [with Syria bombing] where he might not have been able to carry it off.He was losing…

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If Palestinian Authority refuse to join the US-run negotiations, their basis for support would collapse. They survive on donations essentially. Israel has…

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The idea that Hezbollah is acting as an agent of Iran is very dubious. It's not accepted by specialists on Iran or…

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Every time a candidate came up from the base, that is with popular support, the Republican establishment went into high gear to…

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Some of the younger people afford hope for the future. I am not opposed to reform initiatives. For example, if you can…

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Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in…

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Insofar as the universities are free and independent, they will also be "subversive," in the sense that dominant structures of power and…

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In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there…

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There was great anxiety about Russian intervention in the recent German elections, perhaps contributing to the frightening surge of support for the…

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It is a privilege to join the campaign to support Bradley Manning for his courage and integrity in serving his country by…

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As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen…

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Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And…

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The US does not observe the free-trade principles. Those are for the weak. So agribusiness is highly subsidized and pours product into…

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