There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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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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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Every 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.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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