It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.
Noam ChomskyIf you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.
Noam ChomskyAs for geoengineering, there have been serious general critiques that I think cannot be ignored, like Clive Hamilton's, along with many positive assessments. It is not a matter for subjective judgment based on guesswork and intuition. Rather, these are matters that have to be considered seriously, relying on the best scientific understanding available, without abandoning sensible precautionary principles.
Noam ChomskyElements of the Christian fundamentalist right are one of the strongest components of "support for Israel" - support in an odd sense, because they presumably want to see it destroyed in a cosmic battle at Armageddon, after which all the proper souls will ascend to heaven - or so I understand, again, not from close reading.
Noam ChomskyThe United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much. They're concerned with their own affairs.
Noam ChomskyIn 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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