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" The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media. "

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" In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on. "

Noam Chomsky

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" I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on. "

" I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret. "

" If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. "

" If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States. "

" You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English. "

Noam Chomsky

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Learning

" Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece. "

" When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion. "

" I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR. "

" States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. "

" As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. "

" The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid. "

" 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. "

" Nationalism has a way of oppressing others. "

" France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a 'third force,' independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course. "

" Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy. "

" If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. "

" Pakistan is not a unified country. "

" 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. "

" In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti - France and the United States - combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region. "

" The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations. "

" I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. "

" 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. "

" The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s. "

" 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?' "

" There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy. "

" Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way. "

" All through Latin America, there's sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it's qualified by the observation that although these are horrible atrocities, they are not unfamiliar. "

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

" 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. "