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" 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. "

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" The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched. "

Noam Chomsky

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" Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense. "

" The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another. "

" 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 you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are. "

" 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. "

" Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use! "

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

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

" I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system. "

" A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order. "

" I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?' "

" There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders. "

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

" Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror.' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice. "

" 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. "

" When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has. "

" 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. "

" You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India. "

Noam Chomsky

India

China

" The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system - at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course. "

" 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

You

Learning

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

" Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not. "

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

" By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti. "

" By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state. "

" It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos. "

" In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it. "

" States are not moral agents. "

" It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided. "