Tag: Noam Chomsky
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Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.
Noam Chomsky
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Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn’t reduce to physics. So it’s just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.
Noam Chomsky
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Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.
Noam Chomsky
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Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.
Noam Chomsky
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Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.
Noam Chomsky
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As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.
Noam Chomsky
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By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.
Noam Chomsky
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My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha’am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha’am’s essays.
Noam Chomsky
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If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.
Noam Chomsky
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Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.
Noam Chomsky