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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"The US is a country [in which] eighty percent of the population thinks the Bible was written by god. About half think every word is literally true. So it's had to appeal to that - and to the nativist population, the people that are frightened, have always been... It's a very frightened country and that's increasing now with the recognition that the white population is going to be a minority pretty soon, "they've taken our country from us.""

Thinking Country Taken
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the Old Testament. There's nothing like it in the literary canon that exalts genocide, to that extent. And it's not a joke either. Like where I live, New England, the people who liberated it from the native scourge were religious fundamentalist lunatics, who came waving the holy book, declaring themselves to be the children of Israel who are killing the Amalekites, like God told them."

Children Country Religious
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free."

Country Educational Rich Countries
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"We're looking at the dawn of a new arms race. For example, Germany technically opposes the US space militarization program, but is bound to get involved. Otherwise it will be left behind in the development of advanced technology. Germany understands that very well. The US understands it too, and they fully expect that Germany and other countries that they want on board will go along with the program."

Country Technology Space
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"In many respects, the United States is the freest country in the world. I don't just mean in terms of limits on state coercion, though that's true too, but also in terms of individual relations. The United States comes closer to classlessness in terms of interpersonal relations than virtually any society."

Mean Country United States
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"The Sanders campaign showed that a candidate with mildly progressive programs could win the nomination, maybe the election, even without the backing of the major funders or any media support. There's good reason to suppose that Sanders would have won the nomination had it not been for shenanigans of the Obama-Clinton party managers. He is now the most popular political figure in the country by a large margin."

Country Winning Party
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Suppose Vietnam could separate itself from the American dominated global system and carry out a successful social and economic development. Then that is very dangerous because then it could be a model to other movements and groups in neighboring countries. And gradually there could be an erosion from within by indigenous forces of American domination of the region."

Country Successful Erosion
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"The US intervened in the Philippines to uplift and christianize the backward people, killing a couple of hundred thousand of them and destroying the place. The same thing happened in Haiti, the same thing happened with other countries."

Country Couple Uplifting
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop."

Thinking World Country
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the area of free speech, that have been achieved by centuries of popular struggle, are to be admired."

Country America Struggle
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried to impose small fees. There was a national student strike and the government backed down. High tuition is not an economic necessity, as is easy to show, but a debt trap is a good technique of indoctrination and control. And resisting this makes good sense."

Years Country Government
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq."

Country War Iraq
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for a long time, and it's illegal in most countries - in the air controller strike."

Country Long Air
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?'"

Thinking Country War
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"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."

Real Country Government
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"It’s not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures - it’s inevitable. But unless the spirit of the last year, here and elsewhere in the country and around the globe, unless that continues to grow and becomes a major force in the social and political world, the chances for a decent future are not very high."

Country Political Hardship
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars — they would think the country has gone insane."

Thinking Country Political
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence."

Years Country Latin
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"It is a privilege to join the campaign to support Bradley Manning for his courage and integrity in serving his country by helping make the government accountable to its citizens, and to inform the world of what its people should know."

Country Government Integrity
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