American - Activist | December 7, 1928 -
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
Noam Chomsky
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To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
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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.
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How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.
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Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.
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I haven't read Horowitz. I didn't used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don't read him today.
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As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if we're in some kind of religious cult. I 'renounce beliefs' practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out.
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Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.
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