NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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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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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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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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