Noam chomsky

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was...

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience;...

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

No matter what engineering field you're in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate.