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I am not too happy with terms like “the left”, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by “the left” you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can’t be elements of the left opposed to workers’ movement, at least under that definition.


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NOAM CHOMSKY Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that rel...
NOAM CHOMSKY A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the d...
NOAM CHOMSKY If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you...
NOAM CHOMSKY There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.
NOAM CHOMSKY In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. ...
NOAM CHOMSKY The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflatio...
NOAM CHOMSKY For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.
NOAM CHOMSKY The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich ...
NOAM CHOMSKY The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.
NOAM CHOMSKY In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.
NOAM CHOMSKY It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, w...
NOAM CHOMSKY In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and kil...
NOAM CHOMSKY The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial e...
NOAM CHOMSKY From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies ...
NOAM CHOMSKY There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which say...
NOAM CHOMSKY Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how tha...
NOAM CHOMSKY When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn&#...
NOAM CHOMSKY The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg p...
NOAM CHOMSKY The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the O...
NOAM CHOMSKY If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers ...
NOAM CHOMSKY The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but i...
NOAM CHOMSKY The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-ri...
NOAM CHOMSKY In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in ...
NOAM CHOMSKY When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. ...
NOAM CHOMSKY Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop mea...
NOAM CHOMSKY My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew togethe...
NOAM CHOMSKY Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and re...
NOAM CHOMSKY Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!
NOAM CHOMSKY I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
NOAM CHOMSKY Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let...
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