The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.Noam Chomsky
The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.Noam Chomsky
The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.Noam Chomsky
It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise.Noam Chomsky
The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.Noam Chomsky
If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.Noam Chomsky
After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.Noam Chomsky
From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.Noam Chomsky
The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.Noam Chomsky