Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
NOAM CHOMSKYNicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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