The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
NOAM CHOMSKYThat’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
NOAM CHOMSKYAny dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
NOAM CHOMSKYJohn Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
NOAM CHOMSKYNineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
NOAM CHOMSKYConcentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
NOAM CHOMSKYRational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
NOAM CHOMSKYDissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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