Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
Category Archive: Noam Chomsky
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
The ‘free-floating intellectual’ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.
A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha’am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha’am’s essays.