Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 533)
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This piece by Raymond Pierrehumbert (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists) was noted by Noam Chomsky back in 2019. It's really staggering when you understand the true magnitude of the problem.
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[U.S.] Planning documents stress that the role of Latin America is to provide resources and a favorable business and investment climate.
chomsky.info/year01/ (Noam Chomsky
Excerpted from Year 501: The Conquest Continues, South End Press, 1993)
chomsky.info/year01/ (Noam Chomsky
Excerpted from Year 501: The Conquest Continues, South End Press, 1993)
January 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
[U.S.] Planning documents stress that the role of Latin America is to provide resources and a favorable business and investment climate.
chomsky.info/year01/ (Noam Chomsky
Excerpted from Year 501: The Conquest Continues, South End Press, 1993)
chomsky.info/year01/ (Noam Chomsky
Excerpted from Year 501: The Conquest Continues, South End Press, 1993)
#NotAChomskyQuote There are smoke-filled rooms! 🚬
#WilliamSimon #Petrodollar
Source -> Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare By Edward Fishman, 2025
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#WilliamSimon #Petrodollar
Source -> Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare By Edward Fishman, 2025
www.google.com/books/editio...
January 9, 2026 at 12:17 AM
#NotAChomskyQuote There are smoke-filled rooms! 🚬
#WilliamSimon #Petrodollar
Source -> Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare By Edward Fishman, 2025
www.google.com/books/editio...
#WilliamSimon #Petrodollar
Source -> Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare By Edward Fishman, 2025
www.google.com/books/editio...
[2020] The costs of renewable energy are declining very sharply. If you eliminate the massive subsidies that are given to fossil fuels, renewable energy is probably already more cost-effective...So the basic idea of the GND is, I think, completely defensible—in fact, essential.
January 8, 2026 at 4:37 AM
[2020] The costs of renewable energy are declining very sharply. If you eliminate the massive subsidies that are given to fossil fuels, renewable energy is probably already more cost-effective...So the basic idea of the GND is, I think, completely defensible—in fact, essential.
"perpetual peace in a benign global political order" vs. "passing nightmare" - NC appears to land in the middle.
#ImmanuelKant vs. #BertrandRussell 🥹
#ImmanuelKant vs. #BertrandRussell 🥹
January 6, 2026 at 5:30 PM
"perpetual peace in a benign global political order" vs. "passing nightmare" - NC appears to land in the middle.
#ImmanuelKant vs. #BertrandRussell 🥹
#ImmanuelKant vs. #BertrandRussell 🥹
"If you have your hand on the spigot you can control what other people do, whether we use it or not." ~NC
Source: chomsky.info/20101026/ ("Noam Chomsky on American Foreign Policy and US Politics", 2010)
Source: chomsky.info/20101026/ ("Noam Chomsky on American Foreign Policy and US Politics", 2010)
January 4, 2026 at 4:38 PM
"If you have your hand on the spigot you can control what other people do, whether we use it or not." ~NC
Source: chomsky.info/20101026/ ("Noam Chomsky on American Foreign Policy and US Politics", 2010)
Source: chomsky.info/20101026/ ("Noam Chomsky on American Foreign Policy and US Politics", 2010)
If most people are dissatisfied and others are useless, you want to get rid of the useless & frighten the dissatisfied. The drug war does this. The US incarceration rate has risen dramatically, largely because of victimless crimes, such as drug offenses, & the sentences are extremely punitive (1/2)
January 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
If most people are dissatisfied and others are useless, you want to get rid of the useless & frighten the dissatisfied. The drug war does this. The US incarceration rate has risen dramatically, largely because of victimless crimes, such as drug offenses, & the sentences are extremely punitive (1/2)
From Chapter 4 of the Chomsky's 1992 book Deterring Democracy (znetwork.org/wp-content/u...)
January 3, 2026 at 5:11 PM
From Chapter 4 of the Chomsky's 1992 book Deterring Democracy (znetwork.org/wp-content/u...)
Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That’s just fine. It’s just the poor who aren’t supposed to cooperate.
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That’s just fine. It’s just the poor who aren’t supposed to cooperate.
If you go back far enough, [socialism] meant basically control of production by producers, elimination of wage labor, democratization of all spheres of life; production, commerce, education, media, workers’ control in factories, community control of communities, and so on (1/2)
January 3, 2026 at 1:44 AM
If you go back far enough, [socialism] meant basically control of production by producers, elimination of wage labor, democratization of all spheres of life; production, commerce, education, media, workers’ control in factories, community control of communities, and so on (1/2)
So, take K-12, which is now geared increasingly toward “teaching to tests” – the worst possible form of education...you can study for the exam, pass the exam, get an “A,” and a week later you forgot what the course was even about. (1/2)
December 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
So, take K-12, which is now geared increasingly toward “teaching to tests” – the worst possible form of education...you can study for the exam, pass the exam, get an “A,” and a week later you forgot what the course was even about. (1/2)
States are not moral agents. They do not engage in the use of force for humanitarian ends, although that’s always claimed.
December 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
States are not moral agents. They do not engage in the use of force for humanitarian ends, although that’s always claimed.
When US forces entered Korea in 1945, they dispersed the local popular government, consisting primarily of antifascists who resisted the Japanese, and inaugurated a brutal repression, using Japanese fascist police and Koreans who had collaborated with them during the Japanese occupation. (1/2)
December 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
When US forces entered Korea in 1945, they dispersed the local popular government, consisting primarily of antifascists who resisted the Japanese, and inaugurated a brutal repression, using Japanese fascist police and Koreans who had collaborated with them during the Japanese occupation. (1/2)
There are good reasons why the CIA and drugs are so closely linked. Clandestine terror requires hidden funds, and the criminal elements to whom the intelligence agencies naturally turn expect a quid pro quo. Drugs are the obvious answer. (1/2)
December 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
There are good reasons why the CIA and drugs are so closely linked. Clandestine terror requires hidden funds, and the criminal elements to whom the intelligence agencies naturally turn expect a quid pro quo. Drugs are the obvious answer. (1/2)
"Gog and Magog" 😆
December 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"Gog and Magog" 😆
As the class war intensifies, the basic logic of capitalism manifests itself with brutal clarity: We have to maximize profit and power even though we know we are racing to suicide by destroying the environment that sustains life, not sparing ourselves and our families.
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
As the class war intensifies, the basic logic of capitalism manifests itself with brutal clarity: We have to maximize profit and power even though we know we are racing to suicide by destroying the environment that sustains life, not sparing ourselves and our families.
I mean in the long run, anarchists would like to see the state eliminated. But it exists, alongside of private power, and the state is, at least to a certain extent, under public influence and control — could be much more so.
December 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I mean in the long run, anarchists would like to see the state eliminated. But it exists, alongside of private power, and the state is, at least to a certain extent, under public influence and control — could be much more so.
The meaning of life is what you make of it. Life does not have any meaning apart from that, for a human, a dog, a bacterium, or anything else. It is up to you what the meaning of your life is. So, it is partially under your control. (1/2)
December 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The meaning of life is what you make of it. Life does not have any meaning apart from that, for a human, a dog, a bacterium, or anything else. It is up to you what the meaning of your life is. So, it is partially under your control. (1/2)
A large part of English wealth which helped initiate the early Industrial Revolution was derived from straight piracy. Sir Francis Drake, who provided huge sums to England, was a pirate. He was robbing Spanish ships on the high seas.
December 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
A large part of English wealth which helped initiate the early Industrial Revolution was derived from straight piracy. Sir Francis Drake, who provided huge sums to England, was a pirate. He was robbing Spanish ships on the high seas.
People say they’re opposed to welfare. That’s a Reaganite contribution. If welfare means some rich black woman driving up in her limousine to get your hard-earned money at the welfare office, people say they’re against it. (1/2)
December 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
People say they’re opposed to welfare. That’s a Reaganite contribution. If welfare means some rich black woman driving up in her limousine to get your hard-earned money at the welfare office, people say they’re against it. (1/2)
[Edward Bernays] took over, at the request of the United Fruit Company, public relations activities to try to lay the basis for the U.S.-backed invasion, which destroyed an experiment in Guatemalan democracy and opened up forty years of extreme terror and violence. (1/3)
December 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
[Edward Bernays] took over, at the request of the United Fruit Company, public relations activities to try to lay the basis for the U.S.-backed invasion, which destroyed an experiment in Guatemalan democracy and opened up forty years of extreme terror and violence. (1/3)
The United States is one of the very few societies — I don’t even know of any others — where fear of crime and drugs is used as a method of social control. (1/3)
December 2, 2025 at 6:02 AM
The United States is one of the very few societies — I don’t even know of any others — where fear of crime and drugs is used as a method of social control. (1/3)
[I]n 1979 Iran moved towards independence....In fact, immediately right after the Iranian revolution, the U.S. began supporting the Iraqi invasion of Iran, which was devastating. (1/2)
November 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
[I]n 1979 Iran moved towards independence....In fact, immediately right after the Iranian revolution, the U.S. began supporting the Iraqi invasion of Iran, which was devastating. (1/2)
[In 1963], Dean Acheson...a senior adviser to the Kennedy administration, delivered a lecture to the American Society for Intl Law in which he instructed them that, no legal challenge arises in the case of a US response to a challenge to its position, prestige, or authority (1/2)
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
[In 1963], Dean Acheson...a senior adviser to the Kennedy administration, delivered a lecture to the American Society for Intl Law in which he instructed them that, no legal challenge arises in the case of a US response to a challenge to its position, prestige, or authority (1/2)
The U.S. economy relies very heavily on the state sector: Where did computers come from, or the internet, or civilian aircraft, or containerships, or lasers? It comes out of places like MIT. That’s the state sector. It doesn’t rely on private enterprise. It’s all a farce.
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The U.S. economy relies very heavily on the state sector: Where did computers come from, or the internet, or civilian aircraft, or containerships, or lasers? It comes out of places like MIT. That’s the state sector. It doesn’t rely on private enterprise. It’s all a farce.
#NotAChomskyQuote A snippet from Marko Papic's book "Geopolitical Alpha"
November 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
#NotAChomskyQuote A snippet from Marko Papic's book "Geopolitical Alpha"