Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534)

Source: chomsky.info/20200107/ (2020)

Source (War Crimes and Imperial Fantasies, Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian. International Socialist Review, Issue 37, September–October, 2004) chomsky.info/200408__/

Control of the oil...is a major lever of world control against your enemies. And US enemies are Europe & Asia. Those are the regions of the world that could move towards independence. One of the ways to prevent that is to keep your hand on the spigot. It was understood long ago.

Source: chomsky.info/20090209/ (Gaza and its Aftermath, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Assaf Kfoury
Z Magazine, February 9, 2009)

It is not surprising that the numerically dominant component of the “Israel lobby,” by a large measure, consists of evangelical Christians; deeply anti-Semitic but strongly supportive of Israeli expansion and violence as an agency of divine will. (2/2)

It is also useful to remember that Christian Zionism long precedes Jewish Zionism, and both movements are animated by a kind of messianic providentialism: God has a design for the world, and we, the chosen people, are the agents of the divine mission. (1/2)

Source: AN HOUR WITH NOAM CHOMSKY Hugh Gusterson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. chomsky.info/wp-content/u... (2002)

So I think if you look at, at least the history that I know, it’s usually the civilian leadership who is pushing the military to do something. It was the case in the early days of the Vietnam War. (2/2)

I don’t think the Pentagon was that interested in the [Gulf] war. Armies usually aren’t interested in wars. They like preparation for war. But they have an understandable reluctance to fight a war. (1/2)

#WSJ "The attack took place on Saturday, which is a school day in Iran."

Source: thirdworldtraveler.com/Chomsky/Neol...

The Western invasion of 1918 was therefore a defensive action to protect "the welfare of the world capitalist system," threatened by social changes within the service areas. And so it is described in respected scholarship. (2/2)

[I]nto the 60s,Western leaders feared that Russia's economic growth would inspire "radical nationalism" elsewhere, & that others too might be stricken by the disease that infected Russia in 1917, when it became unwilling "to complement the industrial economies of the West,"... (1/2)

Source: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/noam... (Noam Chomsky, Dominance and its Dilemmas, 2003)

In his “Year of Europe” address 30 years ago, Henry Kissinger advised Europeans to keep to their “regional responsibilities” within the “overall framework of order” managed by the US. Europe must not pursue its own independent course based on its Franco-German industrial & financial heartland. (2/2)

[S]enior diplomat David Bruce was a leading advocate for European unification in the Kennedy years, urging Washington to “treat a uniting Europe as an equal partner”—but following America’s lead. He saw “dangers” if Europe “struck off on its own, seeking to play a role independent of the US.” (1/2)

Source: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/noam...

In the most sober establishment journal, Foreign Affairs, Samuel Huntington wrote in 1999: “While the US regularly denounces various countries as ‘rogue states’, in the eyes of many countries it is becoming the rogue superpower...the single greatest external threat to their societies.”

Source: chomsky.info/20230403-2/ (Is a Livable Future Still Possible? Chomsky and Pollin Discuss the IPCC Report. Noam Chomsky Interviewed by C.J. Polychroniou, April 3, 2023. Truthout.)

IPCC reports are consensus documents. Hence, they tend to err on the side of understatement. [The 2023 one] one strikes me as different. It seems that desperation within the scientific community has reached such a level that the gloves are off and they feel the time has come to be blunt.

Source: chomsky.info/200202__/ (A World Without War, Noam Chomsky, Delivered at the II World Social Forum, January 31, 2002.)

Concentrated power pursues the [class] war relentlessly, & very self-consciously. Govt. documents and publications of the business world reveal that they are mostly vulgar Marxists, with values reversed of course. They are also frightened—back to 17th century England in fact.

Chomsky and Epstein: What the Evidence Shows The recent release of emails and photos revealing new details about Noam Chomsky's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has sparked

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znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

Source: Source: chomsky.info/20141002/ (Only One Thing Will Make Israel Change Course, Noam Chomsky, In These Times, October 2, 2014)

For those concerned with the rights of the brutalized Palestinians, there can be no higher priority than working to change U.S. policies, not an idle dream by any means. (3/3)

There is every reason to expect [the Zionist colonization of Palestine] to persist as long as the United States provides the necessary military, economic, diplomatic and ideological support. (2/3)

For a century, the Zionist colonization of Palestine has proceeded primarily on the pragmatic principle of the quiet establishment of facts on the ground, which the world was to ultimately come to accept. It has been a highly successful policy. (1/3)

Source: capitalandmain.com/noam-chomsky...

And Jeff Bezos can say, “I don’t know anything about it; they are not my employees.” Bezos opposes unions because they are the one way in which workers can defend themselves from predators like Jeff Bezos. (3/3)

[Bezos'] system is carefully constructed so that the drivers delivering goods are not his employees. They are run by small companies that contract to Amazon, which means that they can have horrible wages and surveillance to make sure that drivers race as fast as possible... (2/3)