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If the Nuremberg laws were applied today, then every Post-War American president would have to be hanged.


Avram Noam Chomsky

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NOAM CHOMSKY My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to som...
NOAM CHOMSKY Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail t...
NOAM CHOMSKY Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international la...
NOAM CHOMSKY Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard...
NOAM CHOMSKY There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office...
NOAM CHOMSKY In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the exten...
NOAM CHOMSKY You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
NOAM CHOMSKY For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training ...
NOAM CHOMSKY It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other an...
NOAM CHOMSKY Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decl...
NOAM CHOMSKY Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter i...
NOAM CHOMSKY The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by retu...
NOAM CHOMSKY Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its...
NOAM CHOMSKY I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness whic...
NOAM CHOMSKY Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other p...
NOAM CHOMSKY Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
NOAM CHOMSKY I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages ...
NOAM CHOMSKY If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the k...
NOAM CHOMSKY Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a soci...
NOAM CHOMSKY Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's ...
NOAM CHOMSKY By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Ko...
NOAM CHOMSKY The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. I...
NOAM CHOMSKY The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise.
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