Salon.com > We Own the World http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 19:30:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 7 Chomsky quotes that expose the American empire http://www.salon.com/2013/01/18/7_chomsky_quotes_that_expose_the_american_empire/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/18/7_chomsky_quotes_that_expose_the_american_empire/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:47:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13175611 Noam Chomsky is an expert on many matters -- linguistics, how our economy functions, and propaganda, among others. One area where his wisdom especially shines through is in articulating the structure and functioning of the American empire. Chomsky has been speaking and publishing on the topic since the '60s. Below are seven powerful quotes on the evils, atrocities and ironies of the American empire taken from his personal site and from a fan-curated website dedicated to collecting Chomsky's observations.

1. [In early 2007] there was a new rash of articles and headlines on the front page about the "Chinese military build-up." The Pentagon claimed that China had increased its offensive military capacity -- with 400 missiles, which could be nuclear armed. Then we had a debate about whether that proves China is trying to conquer the world or the numbers are wrong, or something. Just a little footnote. How many offensive nuclear armed missiles does the United States have? Well, it turns out to be 10,000. China may now have maybe 400, if you believe the hawks. That proves that they are trying to conquer the world.

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