Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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