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Noam Chomsky

American Activist

Born: Dec 7, 1928

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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. Noam Chomsky

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. Noam Chomsky

You I Am Will Google Jews States Hates About Someone Stuff Read How Am Lot Wants Who Search United United States

The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan. Noam Chomsky

Law Joke Gone States Security Introduced Security Council Council Observe 1980s Idea Calling Principles Reagan Imposed Veto Far International Even International Law United United States Hardly Resolutions

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders. Noam Chomsky

Path Tyrant States Independent Carried Out Following Had Supported Imposed Iranians Moved Moved On Orders Act Illegitimate United United States

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too. Noam Chomsky

Rights Events Human Rights Enormous Too Nineteen Range Solidarity Instance Environment Exciting Global Terms Concern Without Been Human Movement Movements Much Ethnic Spawned Moment International Whole Larger

In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States. Noam Chomsky

Saying Genocide Law NATO Other States Charge Charges Immune Case Powers Court Accepted Against Appealed Yugoslavia United United States

After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries - not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists. Noam Chomsky

Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings. Noam Chomsky

Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow. Noam Chomsky

You Rain Tomorrow Reading Telling Pretty Faces Going Whether Scripts

There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't duplicate that on blogs. Noam Chomsky

You Range Topics Plenty Criticize About Mass Mass Media Source Blogs Duplicate Information Regular Media Wide Wide Range

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against. Noam Chomsky

Guarded Latin Latin America Threat Potential America Pathology Anywhere Against

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests. Noam Chomsky

Power Respected Those Intellectuals Conform Interests Who Serve

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's free market enthusiasms. Noam Chomsky

Government Free Thanks Market Enthusiasms Free Market Haitian Reagan Huge Efficient Quite Subsidy Rice Farmers Compete

In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out. Noam Chomsky

Out Case No-One Environment Bail

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. Noam Chomsky

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane. Noam Chomsky

Truth Courage Truth Is Insane Crisis Has-Been Almost Missile Look Make October Been Happened Episode Whole Acts

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq. Noam Chomsky

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. Noam Chomsky

You Experience Trouble Reading Difficult Could Had Know Contemporary Read How How Much Modern Quite Anything Hebrew Much

In every country except - industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That's one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries. Noam Chomsky

Government Power Country Every Other Other Countries Negotiate States Purchasing Purchasing Power Except Higher Prices Countries Industrial Massive Than Much Reasons Uses United United States

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival. Noam Chomsky

War Survival Worth Evil Trouble Important Enough Virtually Our Several Characteristics Possible Must Imminent Threat Preventive Ultimate Target Portray

Obama, of course, outspent McCain. Noam Chomsky

Obama Course McCain

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