American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism.
I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.
Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible.
I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.
Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.