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Check out #ChomskyReadingList which includes nearly two hundred books and articles by various authors that I found mentioned or recommended by Noam Chomsky in his own interviews and articles.
"The [US] economy relies very heavily on the state sector...The advanced economy, high technology...has always relied extensively on the dynamic state sector of the economy. That’s true of computers, the internet, aircraft, biotechnology, just about everywhere you look" ~Chomsky.
VP JD Vance, take a listen. You might learn something.
In 1979, my friend & mentor Milton Friedman attacks big government:
“The government is TOO BIG. It's TOO INTRUSIVE. It RESTRICTS what we can do. It's becoming our master instead of our servant. We've got to react against it and cut it down to size."
It’s possible that [the US] might have been able to extradite al-Qaida and bin Laden. In fact the Taliban made ambiguous offers of extradition if the US provided evidence, which of course any country would do. The Bush administration rejected that attempt... (1/2)
The Bush administration...[said] we’re going to bomb you because you’re not handing him over to us. Well that’s a major crime that welded the jihadi movement back together; the invasion of Iraq completed the task of reconstructing a massive worldwide terrorist movement. (2/2)
Source: (Noam Chomsky: A beautiful mind, With Jon Snow, Belfast Telegraph, October 14, 2009) chomsky.info/noam-chomsky-a-…
Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) retweeted
It remains to be seen what will come of this initial impulse to find a peaceful balance of powers and interests in West Asia — absent the overruling presence of a western hegemon.
But this meeting tacitly acknowledges Iran's strategic victory and stature as a great power rising.
Mein Trumpf scores yet another record high.
"The Trump administration’s war in Iran has raised prices across the board, increased inflation, and costs about $2,000 per household."
Fact Sheet: Costs of the Iran War americanprogress.org/article…
"In short, the tax burden of California billionaires, whether measured as a share of their income or as a share of the tremendous wealth they have accumulated, is not commensurate with the tax burden of most Californians, even most rich Californians. That’s not fair. "
Can billionaires really take their fortunes elsewhere to escape California’s proposed wealth tax?
Our latest article explains what opponents to Proposition 40 get wrong:
dollarsandsense.org/tax-bill…
I thought "hot mess" is how democracy is supposed to function. But then I remembered that the WSJ is the bastion of capitalism and private dominion over the economy, not democracy.
There was a piece in WSJ in late 2025 "California's Wine Industry Is in Crisis." The wine industry's strategy to cope.: "bringing back younger legal age drinkers...with lawn games..." P.S. Michael Greger debunked the famous "J-shaped curve" here xitter.cf/nutrition_facts/status…
Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) retweeted
The U.S. spends 50% more on healthcare than other high-income economies, but its population is much less healthy. A Medicare for All program would provide more coverage for a lot less money. Join the final Game Changers webinar to learn more.
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WSJ does a hit job on Gabriel Zucman. Appropriately located in the WSJ OPINION section.
"Left-wing French economists are the leading intellectual architects of France’s—and Europe’s—current fiscal and political uproar." (WSJ, Oct 25).
Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) retweeted
🇧🇷 Lula won.
Flávio Bolsonaro is refusing to accept the results and has called for their annulment.
CEPR urges all governments — including the Trump administration — to recognize the outcome to prevent a possible coup or further violence.
cepr.net/newsroom/cepr-urges…
“The liberalization of financial flows creates what some economists call a ‘virtual senate’: if private investors don’t like what some country is doing, they can pull their money out. They in effect come to define government policy. That’s the point of liberalization." ~NC
Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) retweeted
The big problem with AI, who is going to pay trillions for this stuff? deanbaker22.substack.com/p/t…
In fact, what were called the socialist countries were the most anti-socialist systems in the world. Workers had more rights in the United States and England than they had in Russia, and it was somehow still called socialism. (1/1)
Source: (Socialism in an Age of Reaction, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Vaios Triantafyllou, December 13, 2016, Jacobin) chomsky.info/20161213-2/
The Leninist antagonism to the most essential features of socialism was evident from the very start. In revolutionary Russia, Soviets and factory committees developed as instruments of struggle and liberation, with many flaws, but with a rich potential. (1/3)
Before seizing State power, the Bolshevik leadership adopted much of the rhetoric of people who were engaged in the revolutionary struggle from below, but their true commitments were quite different. This was evident before & became crystal clear as they assumed State power (3/3)
Source: (The Soviet Union Versus Socialism, Noam Chomsky, Our Generation, Spring/Summer, 1986) chomsky.info/1986____/