Tag: Noam Chomsky
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
Noam Chomsky
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Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.
Noam Chomsky
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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. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
Noam Chomsky
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An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.
Noam Chomsky
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The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders.
Noam Chomsky
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Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That’s human nature.
Noam Chomsky
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
Noam Chomsky
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Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you’ll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.
Noam Chomsky
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
Noam Chomsky
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One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a ‘crisis of democracy’ from too much participation of the masses.
Noam Chomsky