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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Source (War Crimes and Imperial Fantasies, Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian. International Socialist Review, Issue 37, September–October, 2004) chomsky.info/200408__/

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Control of the oil...is a major lever of world control against your enemies. And US enemies are Europe & Asia. Those are the regions of the world that could move towards independence. One of the ways to prevent that is to keep your hand on the spigot. It was understood long ago.

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Source: chomsky.info/20090209/ (Gaza and its Aftermath, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Assaf Kfoury Z Magazine, February 9, 2009)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

It is not surprising that the numerically dominant component of the “Israel lobby,” by a large measure, consists of evangelical Christians; deeply anti-Semitic but strongly supportive of Israeli expansion and violence as an agency of divine will. (2/2)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

It is also useful to remember that Christian Zionism long precedes Jewish Zionism, and both movements are animated by a kind of messianic providentialism: God has a design for the world, and we, the chosen people, are the agents of the divine mission. (1/2)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Source: AN HOUR WITH NOAM CHOMSKY Hugh Gusterson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. chomsky.info/wp-content/u... (2002)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

So I think if you look at, at least the history that I know, it’s usually the civilian leadership who is pushing the military to do something. It was the case in the early days of the Vietnam War. (2/2)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I don’t think the Pentagon was that interested in the [Gulf] war. Armies usually aren’t interested in wars. They like preparation for war. But they have an understandable reluctance to fight a war. (1/2)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

#WSJ "The attack took place on Saturday, which is a school day in Iran."

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Source: thirdworldtraveler.com/Chomsky/Neol...

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The Western invasion of 1918 was therefore a defensive action to protect "the welfare of the world capitalist system," threatened by social changes within the service areas. And so it is described in respected scholarship. (2/2)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

[I]nto the 60s,Western leaders feared that Russia's economic growth would inspire "radical nationalism" elsewhere, & that others too might be stricken by the disease that infected Russia in 1917, when it became unwilling "to complement the industrial economies of the West,"... (1/2)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Source: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/noam... (Noam Chomsky, Dominance and its Dilemmas, 2003)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

In his “Year of Europe” address 30 years ago, Henry Kissinger advised Europeans to keep to their “regional responsibilities” within the “overall framework of order” managed by the US. Europe must not pursue its own independent course based on its Franco-German industrial & financial heartland. (2/2)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

[S]enior diplomat David Bruce was a leading advocate for European unification in the Kennedy years, urging Washington to “treat a uniting Europe as an equal partner”—but following America’s lead. He saw “dangers” if Europe “struck off on its own, seeking to play a role independent of the US.” (1/2)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Source: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/noam...

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

In the most sober establishment journal, Foreign Affairs, Samuel Huntington wrote in 1999: “While the US regularly denounces various countries as ‘rogue states’, in the eyes of many countries it is becoming the rogue superpower...the single greatest external threat to their societies.”

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Source: chomsky.info/20230403-2/ (Is a Livable Future Still Possible? Chomsky and Pollin Discuss the IPCC Report. Noam Chomsky Interviewed by C.J. Polychroniou, April 3, 2023. Truthout.)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

IPCC reports are consensus documents. Hence, they tend to err on the side of understatement. [The 2023 one] one strikes me as different. It seems that desperation within the scientific community has reached such a level that the gloves are off and they feel the time has come to be blunt.

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Source: chomsky.info/200202__/ (A World Without War, Noam Chomsky, Delivered at the II World Social Forum, January 31, 2002.)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Concentrated power pursues the [class] war relentlessly, & very self-consciously. Govt. documents and publications of the business world reveal that they are mostly vulgar Marxists, with values reversed of course. They are also frightened—back to 17th century England in fact.

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Source: Source: chomsky.info/20141002/ (Only One Thing Will Make Israel Change Course, Noam Chomsky, In These Times, October 2, 2014)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

For those concerned with the rights of the brutalized Palestinians, there can be no higher priority than working to change U.S. policies, not an idle dream by any means. (3/3)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

There is every reason to expect [the Zionist colonization of Palestine] to persist as long as the United States provides the necessary military, economic, diplomatic and ideological support. (2/3)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

For a century, the Zionist colonization of Palestine has proceeded primarily on the pragmatic principle of the quiet establishment of facts on the ground, which the world was to ultimately come to accept. It has been a highly successful policy. (1/3)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

And Jeff Bezos can say, “I don’t know anything about it; they are not my employees.” Bezos opposes unions because they are the one way in which workers can defend themselves from predators like Jeff Bezos. (3/3)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

[Bezos'] system is carefully constructed so that the drivers delivering goods are not his employees. They are run by small companies that contract to Amazon, which means that they can have horrible wages and surveillance to make sure that drivers race as fast as possible... (2/3)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

If you want to know about [Jeff Bezos'] attitude towards women, take a look at an Amazon warehouse. Working conditions are horrendous. If you want to see his attitudes towards working people, take a look at the people who do deliveries. (1/3)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Virtually all macroeconomic indicators have declined worldwide: rate of growth of the economy, of productivity, of capital investment, even trade. There are exceptions: namely, the countries that did not follow the rules, like China. (2/2)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The term “globalization” is used by power centers to refer to the specific form of international economic integration that has been instituted within the “neoliberal” framework of past several decades. The impact of this investor-rights version of globalization is reasonably clear. (1/2)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Source: znetwork.org/zcommentary/... (Moral Principles and International Law, 1999)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It’s entirely obvious why the powerful should have contempt for international law, and why the weak (particularly the former colonies) should generally favor it. The powerful do what they want anyway; treaties and systems of world order don’t offer them any protection.

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Marx was a serious person, not a God. He had significant insights, of lasting value. Like anyone, he made mistakes, and much has happened in the past century that has escaped his vision. (3/3)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I should add that I have never considered myself a “Marxist,” and in fact regard such notions as “Marxist” (or “Freudian,” etc.) as belonging more to the domain of organized religion than of rational analysis. (2/3)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

In general, I think that anarchosyndicalist conceptions — worker’s control, voluntary associations, decentralization and federalism, dissolution of hierarchic and authoritarian structures, and so on — are quite appropriate for the next stage of industrial society. (1/3)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Source: chomsky.info/19910401/ (A Brief Interview with Noam Chomsky on anarchy, civilization and technology. Noam Chomsky interviewed by Lev Chernyi, Toni Otter, Avid Darkly and Noa, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, April 1, 1991)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

In a hierarchic, oppressive society robotics will mean mass destruction. But the question is, what are the institutions? Robotics itself is neutral. Robotics itself could be used to eliminate degrading labor. It could be used to oppress people.

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I mean, you threaten [Iran] with attack, they are not going to say, “Thank you.” They are going to react. And how can they react? In several ways. One of them is by increasing its support for terror and the other is developing a nuclear deterrent. (3/3)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

If you put them under serious threat of attack, they are surrounded on all sides by very hostile and aggressive forces—U.S. armies on both sides and other nuclear state, Israel is a powerful nuclear state which is threatening them. (2/3)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

One of the leading Israeli military historians, Martin von Creveld...had an article [in 2006]. I think it was in the IHT in which he said, approximately, “Obviously we don’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons. But if they don’t develop them they are crazy.” (1/3)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Source: znetwork.org/zmagazine/go... (Government Involvement with Science And Art, 2010)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

That’s called in economics an externality. If you’re, say, a Goldman Sachs executive & you make a loan or investment or something, if you’re functioning “properly” you cover your own risk. But you don’t cover what’s called systemic risk—the risk to society & the system in general (2/2)

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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

In a market system—we have only a partial market system—but markets have inherent what they call “inefficiencies,” really lethal inefficiencies...It’s an inherent part of markets that if you make a transaction, then you look out for yourself not other people. (1/2)

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