Tag: Noam Chomsky
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To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.
Noam Chomsky
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Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.
Noam Chomsky
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
Noam Chomsky
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The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.
Noam Chomsky
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There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.
Noam Chomsky
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Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: ‘What is the scientific status of the claims?’ ‘What social or ideological needs do they serve?’
Noam Chomsky
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
Noam Chomsky
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Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.
Noam Chomsky
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam Chomsky
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The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away.
Noam Chomsky