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 CHOMSKYCensorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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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 truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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