If you look at the Associated Press wires, there's a constant flow of information coming in. At that time I happened to have direct access to AP wires. The day the marines landed in Haiti and restored [ Jan Bรจtran] Aristide there was a lot of excitement about the dedication to democracy and so on. But the day before the marines landed, when every journalist was looking at Haiti because it was assumed that something big was happening, the AP wires reported that then [Bill] Clinton administration had authorized Texaco to ship oil illegally to the military junta.
Noam ChomskyNow financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
Noam ChomskyAnarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.
Noam ChomskyI suppose frogs pay no attention to being frogs. They take it for granted. What interests a frog are differences among frogs. From our point of view they are more or less the same, from their point of view they are all radically different.
Noam ChomskyA big producer can survive price fluctuations on the world market. A small farmer can't.
Noam ChomskyThere is a narrow class of uses of language where you intend to communicate. Communication refers to an effort to get people to understand what one means. And that, certainly, is one use of language and a social use of it. But I don't think it is the only social use of language. Nor are social uses the only uses of language.
Noam Chomsky