On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
— Noam Chomsky
In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out.
It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
I haven't read Horowitz. I didn't used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don't read him today.
When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.
It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States.
Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.
When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.
As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.
Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.
I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.
I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
My proposal happens to be very mainstream.
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.
I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.
There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.
Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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.
When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.
I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.
If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.
As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if we're in some kind of religious cult. I 'renounce beliefs' practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.
Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.
The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.
I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up.
In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
States are not moral agents.
Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.
