Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534)
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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.
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)
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)
[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)
[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)
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.”
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.
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.
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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)
If you want to know about [Jeff Bezos'] attitude towards women, take a look at an Amazon warehouse. Working conditions are horrendous. If you want to see his attitudes towards working people, take a look at the people who do deliveries. (1/3)
The term “globalization” is used by power centers to refer to the specific form of international economic integration that has been instituted within the “neoliberal” framework of past several decades. The impact of this investor-rights version of globalization is reasonably clear. (1/2)
It’s entirely obvious why the powerful should have contempt for international law, and why the weak (particularly the former colonies) should generally favor it. The powerful do what they want anyway; treaties and systems of world order don’t offer them any protection.
In general, I think that anarchosyndicalist conceptions — worker’s control, voluntary associations, decentralization and federalism, dissolution of hierarchic and authoritarian structures, and so on — are quite appropriate for the next stage of industrial society. (1/3)
In a hierarchic, oppressive society robotics will mean mass destruction. But the question is, what are the institutions? Robotics itself is neutral. Robotics itself could be used to eliminate degrading labor. It could be used to oppress people.
One of the leading Israeli military historians, Martin von Creveld...had an article [in 2006]. I think it was in the IHT in which he said, approximately, “Obviously we don’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons. But if they don’t develop them they are crazy.” (1/3)
In a market system—we have only a partial market system—but markets have inherent what they call “inefficiencies,” really lethal inefficiencies...It’s an inherent part of markets that if you make a transaction, then you look out for yourself not other people. (1/2)
As state capitalism developed into the modern era, economic, political and ideological systems have increasingly been taken over by vast institutions of private tyranny that are about as close to the totalitarian ideal as any that humans have so far constructed.
One of the things that the United States did in this century, which isn’t discussed enough, is that they started dismantling the arms control regime, which had been steadily established with difficulty over 60 years.
The Godfather does not tolerate “successful defiance,” even from a small storekeeper who fails to pay protection money. It is too dangerous. It must therefore be stamped out, and brutally, so that others understand that disobedience is not an option. ~NC
We can...be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world — at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. (1/2)
You want to talk about interference with the election? Campaign funding by the wealthy and the corporate sector utterly overwhelms the effect of any imaginable foreign interference. That’s the real interference with elections. (1/2)
Hans Von Sponeck—a distinguished figure internationally—wrote a detailed book about Iraq under the sanctions. He knew more about Iraq in the 1990s than anyone. (1/3)
#NotAChomskyQuote Was browsing the environmental section of the local library and ran into this book google.com/books/editio... (Google Books Preview, 62 pages)
Going back to markets — if you take an economics course, they tell you markets offer choices. That’s partly true, but very narrowly. Markets restrict choices, sharply restrict choices. Mass transportation is an example. Mass transportation is not a choice offered on the market. (1/2)
[U.S.] Planning documents stress that the role of Latin America is to provide resources and a favorable business and investment climate. chomsky.info/year01/ (Noam Chomsky Excerpted from Year 501: The Conquest Continues, South End Press, 1993)
