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" My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential. "

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" In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society. "

Noam Chomsky

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" In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining. "

" When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming. "

" There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11. "

" In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard. "

" Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush. "

" A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it's a well run institution - say, Goldman Sachs - it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself. "

" U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness. "

" In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category. "

" There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.' "

Noam Chomsky

Know

You

" The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware. "

" It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction. "

" The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States. "

" How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. "

" Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts. "

" The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united. "

" The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power. "

" The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern. "

Noam Chomsky

Commitment

White

" The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. "

" When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn't producing any more. "

Noam Chomsky

Maybe

North Korea

" In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. "

" The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before. "

Noam Chomsky

American

Now

" Obama, of course, outspent McCain. "

" A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer. "

" Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg. "

" Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known. "

" Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. "

" Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich. "

" There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much of the land with, especially in the Plain of Jars. There actually is a British engineering team trying to remove some of these things, which are much worse than land mines. "

" The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away. "

Noam Chomsky

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