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" Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the (U.S.) media."

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky Archive - Z magazine

"I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled."

Noam Chomsky

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"The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions."

Noam Chomsky

Books by Noam Chomsky

Profit Over People
Common Good - Chomsky
Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, The

"Vietnam wasn't a "disastrous mistake" - it was murderous aggression."

Noam Chomsky

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"The U.S. is the only country condemned by the World Court for international terrorism-for "the unlawful use of force" for political ends."

Noam Chomsky

Manufacturing Consent
Propaganda and the Public Mind

The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Secrets, Lies, and Democracy
What Uncle Sam Really Wants

"Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled."

Noam Chomsky

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"In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state."

Noam Chomsky

After the Cataclysm
Rogue States
9-11
Year 501

Deterring Democracy
Media Control
Necessary Illusions

"As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments. People assume that they are the only people with a crazy idea in their heads. They never hear it from anywhere else. Nobody's supposed to think that. ... Since there's no way to get together with other people who share or reinforce that view and help you articulate it, you feel like an oddity, an oddball. So you just stay on the side and you don't pay any attention to what's going on. You look at something else, like the Superbowl."

Noam Chomsky

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" The U.S. will not permit constructive programs in its own domains, so it must ensure that they are destroyed elsewhere to terminate " the threat of a good example".

Noam Chomsky

 

Lectures

Problems of Latin America and Caribbean - speech by Noam Chomsky - VII Social Summit for the Latin American and Caribbean Unity - 2008
Noam Chomsky on "Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours" - speaking at Riverside Church in Harlem on June 12, 2009

Articles

Rollback Part 1
Rollback Part 3
Rollback Part 4

" The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations."

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky - Why he has Concentrated on US Foreign Policy
"The reasons for my concern" - Chomsky on U.S.foreign policy

"The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy."

Noam Chomsky

The Victors - part I
The Victors - part II
The Victors - part III

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

Noam Chomsky

Democracy Enhancement part I
Democracy Enhancement part II

"The South is assigned a service role: to provide resources, cheap labor, markets, opportunities for investment and ... export of pollution."

Noam Chomsky

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"The best defense against democracy is to distract people."

Noam Chomsky

Rogue States

"The Orwellian term is "right to work," meaning "effectively illegal to organize".

Noam Chomsky

" Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators."

Noam Chomsky

End the Atrocity in East Timor
The Pentagon System
Secrets, Lies, Democracy & Chile - interview
Colombia - Culture of Fear - Chomsky
Human Rights and the United States, 1993
What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream

"There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a lot of others have no security."

Noam Chomsky


The New Military Humanism - Lessons from Kosovo
Deterring Democracy in Italy - interview with Noam Chomsky
Renewing Tom Paine's Challenge

Telling the truth about imperialism - Barsamian/Chomsky
A Century Later - Cuba , the Caribbean, and Latin America (9/98)

"If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, etc., there's a chance to contribute to the making of a better world. That's your choice."

Noam Chomsky

Project Censored 25th Anniv - Noam Chomsky - Project Censored 2001
The Chomsky Tapes - Conversations with Michael Albert
Interview With Chomsky about 9-11 - Dec 28, 2002
Noam Chomsky Traces Aristide's 2004 Ouster Back To 1991-1994 Coup (3/17/04)
Perspectives on Corporate Power and Communications Technology (Summer 2004 - EDucate Magazine)
Imperial Presidency - Strategies to control the "great beast" (2/05)

Amy Goodman interviews Noam Chomsky - March 31, 2006 and April 3, 2006
A Just War? Hardly [Iraq] (5/06)
Iraq: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow - Noam Chomsky interviewed by Michael Albert (12/06)
Historical Perspectives on Latin American and East Asian Regional Development (12/06)
There's An Alternative World... If Only We Can Find It (8/07)

Quotes by Noam Chomsky

"... the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly."

Noam Chomsky

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"Societies of the North - notibly the United States - are taking on certain Third World aspects. The distribution of privilege and despair in a society with the emormous advantages of ours is not, of course, what one finds in Brazil or Mexico. But the tendencies are not hard to see."

Noam Chomsky


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"[Noam] Chomsky's truly great contribution to the struggle for human freedom is that he has taken what we have been persuaded to believe is an insane idea, a product only of individual neurosis - the idea that society is not free and quite possibly not even sane - and shown it to be empirically, demonstrably true; he has provided the vital support for the individual to be able to declare him - and herself sane against the insanity of society, despite a million voices declaring that it is the occasional doubter who is mad."

David Edwards - Burning All Illusions


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