Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.
Noam ChomskyUS wars are going to be against much weaker enemies. And they have to be won quickly and decisively before a popular reaction develops.
Noam ChomskyThere's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion about Harvard, and indeed the school's president, James Conant, did block Jewish faculty. He was the one who prevented European Jews from being admitted to the chemistry department - his field - and also had pretty good relations with the Nazis.
Noam ChomskyThere are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.
Noam ChomskyThe Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
Noam ChomskyIf you look at the minutes of the constitutional convention - which we have - Madison who was the main framer, proceeded to develop a system in which - as he put it - power would be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, the more responsible set of men and who recognize the need to protect the rights of property owners. That's why in the constitutional system, the most powerful part of the whole system is the senate.
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