I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
NOAM CHOMSKYOn the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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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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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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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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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There 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.
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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