There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them
Noam ChomskyU.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here.
Noam ChomskyToday, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War, and most people are blissfully unaware of this danger.
Noam ChomskyI do not feel that we should set up PEOPLE as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles.
Noam ChomskyColombia was a big wheat producer in the 1950's. That was eliminated by what sounds like a nice plan, called "Food for Peace. " It's a plan by which US taxpayers subsidized US agribusiness to send food to poor countries. This, of course, destroyed the domestic agricultural markets of these countries, opening these markets to US agribusiness.
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