Fuck Yeah Noam Chomsky

"Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an..."

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:54:52 -0400

“Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.”

- Noam Chomsky (via agavebuzz)

"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds..."

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:10:40 -0400

““The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on — because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions.””

- Noam Chomsky (via hipsterspinster)

Chomsky featured in "Free" (the dub of protest)

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:55:06 -0400

http://vimeo.com/29207628

"A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major..."

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:08:36 -0400

“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. ‘He repeatedly asserted that the only way to drive the U.S. from the Muslim world and defeat its satraps was by drawing Americans into a series of small but expensive wars that would ultimately bankrupt them,’ Eric Margolis writes. ‘“Bleeding the U.S.,” in his words.’ The United States, first under George W. Bush and then Barack Obama, rushed right into bin Laden’s trap… Grotesquely overblown military outlays and debt addiction… may be the most pernicious legacy of the man who thought he could defeat the United States—particularly when the debt is being cynically exploited by the far right, with the collusion of the Democrat establishment, to undermine what remains of social programs, public education, unions, and, in general, remaining barriers to corporate tyranny.”

- Excerpt from the new preface of the 10th anniversary reissue of Noam Chomsky’s 9-11: Was There an Alternative?. (via prshnth)

Hypersomnia Creep's Mellow Waste: War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:30:05 -0400

Hypersomnia Creep's Mellow Waste: War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.:

hypersomniacreep:

The terms of political discourse typically have two meanings. One is the dictionary meaning, and the other is a meaning that is useful for serving power-the doctrinal meaning.

Take democracy. According to the commonsense meaning, a society is democratic to the extent that people can participate…

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Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:23:05 -0400

"If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long...."

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:30:05 -0400

“If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. There are two problems for our species’ survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly. This hypothetical Martian would probably conclude that human beings were an evolutionary error.”

- Noam Chomsky (via suriveorthrive)

"Ayn Rand in my view is one of the most evil figures of modern intellectual history."

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:35:05 -0400

“Ayn Rand in my view is one of the most evil figures of modern intellectual history.”

- Noam Chomsky (via voorwaarts)

WHISKYHIGHS.: “When I was in high school… I asked myself at one point: “Why do i...

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:30:05 -0400

WHISKYHIGHS.: “When I was in high school… I asked myself at one point: “Why do i...:

whiskyhighs:

“When I was in high school… I asked myself at one point: “Why do i care if my high school’s team wins the football game? I don’t know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me… why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense.” But the point is, it does make sense: It’s a way of…

"The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4..."

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:30:06 -0400

“The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion – a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap.”

- Noam Chomsky - American Decline: Causes & Consequences (via weareimmortal)

"The phrase the ‘discovery of America’ is obviously wrong. What they discovered was an America that..."

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:33:05 -0400

“The phrase the ‘discovery of America’ is obviously wrong. What they discovered was an America that had been discovered for thousands of years before by its inhabitants. Thus what took place was the invasion of America – an invasion by a very alien culture.”

- Noam Chomsky (via selchieproductions)

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Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:16:10 -0400

New Noam Chomsky piece on the causes and consequences of American decline

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:33:05 -0400

New Noam Chomsky piece on the causes and consequences of American decline:

thegermansmakegoodstuff:

I love this guy.

thegermansmakegoodstuff: Shepard Fairey

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:19:05 -0400

thegermansmakegoodstuff:

Shepard Fairey

iamnotpablo: Noam Chomsky in Venezuela.

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:32:05 -0400

iamnotpablo:

Noam Chomsky in Venezuela.

NOAM CHOMSKY: DRUG CARTELS AND THE GROWING BORDER WAR

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:32:05 -0400

NOAM CHOMSKY: DRUG CARTELS AND THE GROWING BORDER WAR:

criminalwisdom:

In a new interview, linguist and activist Noam Chomsky discusses the drug cartels of Mexico, the government’s error-proned response to the “War on Drugs,” and what the U.S. education system could learn from Mexico.

"Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know,..."

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:31:05 -0400

““Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds. But if children[’s] … normal interest is maintained or even aroused, they can do all kinds of things in ways we don’t understand.””

- Noam Chomsky (via rainydayrunner)

media-ocracy: I MET HIM!

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:30:05 -0400

media-ocracy: I MET HIM!:

media-ocracy:

Couldn’t have asked for more… definitely a proud moment of my design career, a sure elevator to my thesis, and more importantly, the opportunity to meet and interview Prof. Noam Chomsky for my Graduate Design Thesis.

Photo by: Bev Stohl, Prof. Noam Chomsky’s PA and TA Location: …

"We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s..."

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:31:05 -0400

“We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s, and he is not a ‘suspect’ but uncontroversially the ‘decider’ who gave the orders to commit the ‘supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole’ (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal) for which Nazi criminals were hanged: the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, destruction of much of the country, the bitter sectarian conflict that has now spread to the rest of the region.”

- Noam Chomsky, on the killing of Osama bin Laden (via lasso)

"The goal for the corporations is to maximize profit and market share. And they also have a goal for..."

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:31:05 -0400

““The goal for the corporations is to maximize profit and market share. And they also have a goal for their target, namely the population. They have to be turned into completely mindless consumers of goods that they do not want. You have to develop what are called “Created Wants”. So you have to create wants. You have to impose on people what’s called a Philosophy of Futility. You have to focus them on the insignificant things of life, like fashionable consumption. I’m just basically quoting business literature. And it makes perfect sense. The ideal is to have individuals who are totally disassociated from one another. Whose conception of themselves, the sense of value is just, “how many created wants can I satisfy?” We have huge industries, public relations industry, monstrous industry, advertising and so on, which are designed from infancy to mold people into this desired pattern.””

- Noam Chomsky, from the film, “The Corporation (via veganoclastic)