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" The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously. "

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" The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery. "

Noam Chomsky

Chance

Better

America

" Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good. "

" 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

" As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use. "

" 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. "

" Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what's called in the press 'Obama's Army.' But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That's critical. "

" Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They're trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that. "

" The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide. "

" My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence. "

" The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists. "

" Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is. "

" 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. "

" I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff,' she was right: there was nothing there. "

" To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position. "

" It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise. "

" 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. "

" Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems. "

" Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place. "

" Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. "

" For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence. "

" When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land. "

" I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult. "

" Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence. "

Noam Chomsky

End

Commitment

" Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. "

" In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true. "

Noam Chomsky

Apartheid

Opposite

" Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States. "

" Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.' "

" The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.' "

" Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. "

" Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. "