The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
NOAM CHOMSKYI would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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I 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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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They 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.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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