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 figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.Noam Chomsky
Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.Noam Chomsky
From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.Noam Chomsky
The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.Noam Chomsky
A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.Noam Chomsky
American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.Noam Chomsky
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.Noam Chomsky
Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?'Noam Chomsky
In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn - the climax of a 'day of awe,' as the press described it.Noam Chomsky