Occupation: Linguist Birth: December 7, 1928
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power ac….
In fact, Clinton-era publications of the US Space Command describe control over space as a parallel to control over the oceans a century ago. Then, c….
What is failure for some is success for others. It depends on where they stand in the struggles over "democratic governance" and related rights - civ….
Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment..
If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The next one you'd go after is alc….
It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars..
The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is run by an unusually class-conscious, dedicated business class that has a very violent labor history, much ….
It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of….
The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you take….
Go back to the Bible, the Old Testament. I mean there were people who we would call intelectuals, there, they were called prophets, but they were bas….
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion..
Latin America is all moving to the left, from Venezuela to Argentina with rare exceptions, but there's a good left and a bad left..
Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will be 'preaching to t….
A functioning eco-system is a human need..
What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like high-sp….
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged..
What right does the US have to do anything in Colombia? Does Colombia have the right to bomb North Carolina? There are more Colombians dying from tob….
Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that authority and domination are necessary….
If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. ….
[Companies that specialized in how to destroy unions] don't make it a secret, and they have all sorts of techniques for management to destroy unions..
Plainly, children learn their language. I don't speak Swahili. And it cannot be that my language is 'an innate property of our brain.' Otherwise I wo….