Occupation: Linguist Birth: December 7, 1928
... the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner suppo….
The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system..
Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history..
The real invasion of South Vietnam which was directed largely against the rural society began directly in 1962 after many years of working through me….
The [Ronald] Reagan administration told the business world that they were not going to enforce the labor laws..
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading….
The Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism. In fact, he is doing it all over the world. Obama is running the biggest terrorist ope….
Terror became a big issue when the Reagan Administration came in. They immediately announced [their plans] and kind of disparaged Carter's alleged hu….
We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy to….
The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance..
The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, a….
...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that ….
I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of a coherent alternative to the idea th….
Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does Bush. You know, they were def….
The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism..
The rich and powerful countries are trying to wreck as much as possible. You know, go off the cliff as soon as you can. Extract every drop of hydroca….
I listen to talk radio a lot and it's kind of interesting. If you can sort of suspend your knowledge of the world and just enter into the world of th….
Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit [from] un….
The [Ronald] Reagan administration picked up the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement; they said "Yyeah, you're right." We have to eliminate nuclear….
It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then to biology, then ex….
Our health care is rationed by wealth..