You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe childcare tax credit makes some sense.
NOAM CHOMSKYEvery time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
NOAM CHOMSKYSometimes I lose my temper.
NOAM CHOMSKYSome may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
NOAM CHOMSKYDebt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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 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 CHOMSKYSo slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
NOAM CHOMSKYIntellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
NOAM CHOMSKYThey come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
NOAM CHOMSKYMarkets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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