Suppose I try to say the US carries out terror, in fact it's one of the leading terrorist states in the world. You can't say that between commercials. People rightly want to know what do you mean. They've never heard that before. Then you have to explain. You have to give background. That's exactly what's cut out.
Noam ChomskyNobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.
Noam ChomskyWhile Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.
Noam ChomskyThe country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.
Noam ChomskyThere are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90 percent of the mass-energy in the universe is called "dark," because nobody knows what it is.
Noam ChomskyItโs ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? Theyโre totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. Thereโs about as much freedom as under Stalinism.
Noam Chomsky