Occupation: Linguist Birth: December 7, 1928
The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface struc….
The United States is absolutely the most dangerous country in the world..
For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect of human nature. And secon….
There's one white powder which is by far the most lethal known, it's called sugar. . . . The Caribbean back in the 18th century was a soft drug produ….
The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice..
All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell..
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 utte….
There was no direct way to prevent the Boston murders. There are some easy ways to prevent likely future ones: by not inciting them. That's also true….
Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doin….
America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment..
The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before..
Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Re….
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentio….
Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether….
US government policies are continuing to do exactly the same thing [produce terrorism]. Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a dron….
The internet is something created largely by public funding..
The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense a democracy, but it is ….
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself..
What is "credibility"? It's a very familiar notion. It's basically the notion that is central to the Mafia. So suppose say the Godfather produces som….
The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy..
Take the Iraq War,it's the second worst crime after the Second World War. It's the first time in history, in the history of imperialism, there were h….