Tag: Noam Chomsky
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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.
Noam Chomsky
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With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.
Noam Chomsky
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Noam Chomsky
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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
Noam Chomsky
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Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.
Noam Chomsky
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When a politician uses the word ‘folks,’ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.
Noam Chomsky
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People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.
Noam Chomsky
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From the late 1940s, into and through the ’50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.
Noam Chomsky
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The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.
Noam Chomsky
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If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.
Noam Chomsky