The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
NOAM CHOMSKYI don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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The 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.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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