This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
Noam Chomsky
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Trump In the White House: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Some years ago, the public intellectual warned that the U.S. was ripe for the rise of an authoritarian figure. Now he describes the threat Trump poses to the planet.
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The Empire Files With Abby Martin: Noam Chomsky On Electing the President of an Empire
The world-renowned philosopher and linguist discusses the presidential primary "extravaganza," the movement for Bernie Sanders, the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal and the reality of "democracy" under capitalism.
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Noam Chomsky on Human Extinction: The Corporate Elite are Actively Courting Disaster
Climate change poses an imminent threat to human life, said political philosopher Noam Chomsky – and humans are drawing their own doom ever closer.
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America's Kangaroo Justice: Welcome to The Post-Constitutional Era
Our corporate masters, unchecked by state power and dismissive of the popular will, do not see the fires they're igniting – and the Supreme Court's refusal to hear Hedges v. Obama is a signpost on the road to dystopia.
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Hedges v. Obama: Fighting the Militarized State
This law, if it is not struck down, will essentially replace our civilian judiciary with a military one, meaning people will not have a chance to get a lawyer or see the inside of a courtroom.
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Noam Chomsky: How to Ruin an Economy in Three Simple Steps
The economy is not designed to serve human needs, but rather wealth for a privileged few.
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Hedges: Last Chance to Stop the National Defense Authorization Act
We have begun the third and final round of our battle to get the courts to strike down a section of the NDAA that permits the military to seize U.S. citizens, strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely in military facilities.
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Lockdown, USA: Lessons From the Boston Marathon Manhunt
A generalized fear now shapes American society—one that thrives on insecurity, precarity, dread of punishment and concern with external threats.
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A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age?
For the general population, the situation is bad and could get worse, says Noam Chomsky. This could be a period of irreversible decline, where the 1% and the .1% are more powerful than ever, controlling the political system and disregarding the public.
