Tag: Noam Chomsky
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You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.
Noam Chomsky
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
Noam Chomsky
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Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.
Noam Chomsky
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky
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The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.
Noam Chomsky
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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.
Noam Chomsky
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A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.
Noam Chomsky
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Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and messages sent out under their name! I’m sure it’s illegal. It’s also an effort to undermine free speech.
Noam Chomsky
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My proposal happens to be very mainstream.
Noam Chomsky
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Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.
Noam Chomsky