Noam Chomsky Quotes And Sayings

Sometimes I Lose My Temper.

One Of The Best Predictors Of Policy Around Is Thomas Ferguson's Investment Theory Of Politics, As He Calls It - Very Outstanding Political Economist - Which Essentially - I Mean, To Say It In A Sentence, He Describes Elections As Occasions In Which Groups Of Investors Coalesce And Invest To Control The State.

After My First Year Of College, Each Course I Took In Every Field Was So Boring That I Didn't Even Go To The Classes.

The Crimes Against Palestinians In The Occupied Territories And Elsewhere, Particularly Lebanon, Are So Shocking That The Only Emotionally Valid Reaction Is Rage And A Call For Extreme Actions. But That Does Not Help The Victims. And, In Fact, It's Likely To Harm Them.

In 1963, The U.n. Security Council Declared A Voluntary Arms Embargo On South Africa. That Was Extended To A Mandatory Embargo In 1977. And That Was Followed By Economic Sanctions And Other Measures - Sometimes Officials, Countries, Cities, Towns - Some Organized By Popular Movements.

Under The Worst Conditions, Horrendous Conditions, People Still, You Know, Fight For Their Rights And Don't Just Succumb.

The U.s. And Its Allies Will Do Anything They Can To Prevent Authentic Democracy In The Arab World.

Every Time There Has Been An Effort By The Haitian People To Overcome The Misery And Poverty That Comes From 200 Years Of Bitter Attacks, Really Bitter, The U.s. Steps In And Blocks It.

The Occupy Movement Is - It Was A Big Surprise.

Wikileaks Is A Service To The Population. Assange Should Get An Award For - Presidential Medal Of Honor.

The Murder Of Lumumba, In Which The U.s. Was Involved, In The Congo Destroyed Africa's Major Hope For Development. Congo Is Now Total Horror Story, For Years.

If You Want To Achieve Something, You Build The Basis For It.

Romania, Which Had The Worst Dictator In Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, He Was A Darling Of The West. The United States And Britain Loved Him. He Was Supported Until The Last Minute.

One Of The Problems Of Organizing In The North, In The Rich Countries, Is That People Tend To Think - Even The Activists - That Instant Gratification Is Required. You Constantly Hear: 'Look I Went To A Demonstration, And We Didn't Stop The War So What's The Use Of Doing It Again?'

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.

Bradley Manning Has Been Imprisoned Without Charge, Under Torture, Which Is What Solitary Confinement Is.

The Occupy Movement Did Create Spontaneously Communities That Taught People Something: You Can Be In A Supportive Community Of Mutual Aid And Cooperation And Develop Your Own Health System And Library And Have Open Space For Democratic Discussion And Participation. Communities Like That Are Really Important.

Up Until The First World War, When People Turned Anti-german, Germany Had Been Described By American Political Scientists As The Model Of Democracy.

Cuba Has Become A Symbol Of Courageous Resistance To Attack. Since 1959, Cuba Has Been Under Attack From The Hemispheric Superpower.

The Level Of Destruction And Terror And Violence Carried Out By The Powerful States Far Exceeds Anything That Can Imaginably Can Be Done By Groups That Are Called Terrorists And Subnational Groups.

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.

Remember, Weapons Of Mass Destruction Don't Mean Missiles.

When Rumsfeld Gets Up On Television And Says We Have Definitive Intelligence That Al Qaeda Is Working With Iraq, How Is An Ordinary Citizen Supposed To React? They Won't Tell You The Evidence, And When Anyone Asks, They Say, 'Well, You Know: It's Secret.'

Israelis Would Mostly Breathe A Sigh Of Relief If Palestinians Were To Disappear.

In The Case Of Yugoslavia V. Nato, One Of The Charges Was Genocide. The U.s. Appealed To The Court, Saying That, By Law, The United States Is Immune To The Charge Of Genocide, Self-immunized, And The Court Accepted That, So The Case Proceeded Against The Other Nato Powers, But Not Against The United States.

From The 1970s, There Has Been A Significant Change In The U.s. Economy, As Planners, Private And State, Shifted It Toward Financialization And The Offshoring Of Production, Driven In Part By The Declining Rate Of Profit In Domestic Manufacturing.

In 1949, China Declared Independence - An Event Known In Western Discourse As 'The Loss Of China' In The U.s. - With Bitter Recriminations And Conflict Over Who Was Responsible For That Loss.

Over The Years, There Have Been A Series Of Concepts Developed To Justify The Use Of Force In International Affairs For A Long Period. It Was Possible To Justify It On The Pretext, Which Usually Turned Out To Have Very Little Substance, That The U.s. Was Defending Itself Against The Communist Menace. By The 1980s, That Was Wearing Pretty Thin.

The Western Mantra Is That Israel Seeks Negotiations Without Preconditions, While The Palestinians Refuse. The Opposite Is More Accurate.

John Lewis Gaddis Is Not Only The Favorite Historian Of The Reagan Administration, But He's Regarded As The Dean Of Cold War Scholarship, The Leading Figure In The American Cold War Scholarship, A Professor At Yale.

A War With Pakistan Would Be An Utter Disaster.

After The Ignominious Collapse Of The Copenhagen Global Climate Change Summit In 2009, Bolivia Organised A People's Summit With 35,000 Participants From 140 Countries - Not Just Representatives Of Governments, But Also Civil Society And Activists.

In November 2007, The White House Issued A Declaration Of Principles Demanding That U.s. Forces Must Remain Indefinitely In Iraq And Committing Iraq To Privilege American Investors.

Occupying Armies Have Responsibilities, Not Rights. Their Primary Responsibility Is To Withdraw As Quickly And Expeditiously As Possible, In A Manner Determined By The Occupied Population.

September 11 Shocked Many Americans Into An Awareness That They Had Better Pay Much Closer Attention To What The U.s. Government Does In The World And How It Is Perceived. Many Issues Have Been Opened For Discussion That Were Not On The Agenda Before. That's All To The Good.

Radical Islamist Extremists Surely Hope That An Attack On Iraq Will Kill Many People And Destroy Much Of The Country, Providing Recruits For Terrorist Actions.

By Very Conservative Estimates, Turkish Repression Of Kurds In The 1990s Falls In The Category Of Kosovo. It Peaked In The Early 1990s; One Index Is The Flight Of More Than A Million Kurds From The Countryside To The Unofficial Kurdish Capital, Diyarbakir, From 1990 To 1994, As The Turkish Army Was Devastating The Countryside.

If Workers Are More Insecure, That's Very 'Healthy' For The Society, Because If Workers Are Insecure, They Won't Ask For Wages, They Won't Go On Strike, They Won't Call For Benefits; They'll Serve The Masters Gladly And Passively. And That's Optimal For Corporations' Economic Health.

In Kosovo, The U.s. Has Chosen A Course Of Action That Escalates Atrocities And Violence. It Is Also A Course Of Action That Strikes A Blow Against The Regime Of International Order, But Which Offers The Weak At Least Some Protection From Predatory States.

In The Universities, Cheap, Vulnerable Labor Means Adjuncts And Graduate Students.

The Threat And Use Of Violence Is Stimulating Nuclear Proliferation Along With Jihadi Terrorism.

U.s. Government Propaganda Tries To Give The Impression That Aerial Bombardment Achieves Near-surgical Accuracy, So That Military Targets Can Be Destroyed With Minimal Effect On Civilians. Technical Documents Give A Different Picture.

Since The Civil War In Laos Was Resumed In Earnest In 1963, American Participation Has Been Veiled In Secrecy.

Part Of The Population Of Laos Lives In Urban Centers, Vientiane Being The Largest.

The Target Of Preventive War Must Have Several Characteristics. It Must Be Virtually Defenceless; It Must Be Important Enough To Be Worth The Trouble; It Must Be Possible To Portray It As The Ultimate Evil And An Imminent Threat To Our Survival.

In The Early Days Of The Military Arpanet, My Daughter Was Studying In Nicaragua. Because The U.s. Was Essentially At War With Them, Contact Was Difficult. I Managed To Use Mit's Arpanet Connection, And She Found One, So We Could Communicate Thanks To The Pentagon!

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.

The U.s. Is Not Constructing A Palatial Embassy, By Far The Largest In The World And Virtually A Separate City Within Baghdad, And Pouring Money Into Military Bases, With The Intention Of Leaving Iraq To Iraqis.

Somebody Will Be Able To Overcome Any Encryption Technique You Use!

The Old-fashioned Idea Is That Responsibility Falls Upon Those Who Borrow And Lend. Money Was Not Borrowed By Campesinos, Assembly Plant Workers, Or Slum-dwellers. The Mass Of The Population Gained Little From Borrowing, Indeed Often Suffered Grievously From Its Effects.