The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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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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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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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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