Noam Chomsky

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...skyrocketed over the past twelve months. All this despite our being identified as "ground zero" of the global financial panic. Take that, Noam Chomsky! In sum, it's been a most amazing year, but hardly a descent into chaos. So keep up your...

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...foreigners over US citizens. The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. Noam Chomsky

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...teens who want to rebel against their Totally Oppressive Parents but who haven't heard of Rage Against The Machine and are too intimidated by Noam Chomsky and Janeane Garofalo. The second is the type who wants the appearance of political...

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...in fact we are at its mercy every moment of our lives. "What you realize when you have a kid, if you're a woman," a young mother lectures Noam Chomsky in "Chomsky, Rodents," "is we're animals and it's hard to be an animal. It's hard work and...

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It's bad enough that he has to endure the studied neutrality or outright hostility of the really big guns of the left--Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein--but then an arrant nobody like me comes along with, as one of his fellow posters...

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...design motif suggesting an academic kingdom. Yes, some smart people set up shop around here, including lefty linguist Noam Chomsky and African-American studies pioneer Henry Louis Gates Jr., recently famous for his run-in with...

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...the policies of Bush's second term, and that is pretty much what happened, apart from a different rhetorical style," Chomsky said. Chomsky said the U.S. operates under the "Mafia principle," explaining "the Godfather does not tolerate...

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...dream in the face of such lesser reported facts. Like the American philosopher John Dewey, Chomsky's fundamental faith in democratic ideals leads him to believe that people would not tolerate such injustices, if only they were able to hear...

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