The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor – Noam Chomsky
“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.”
Noam Chomsky
Education in Wealthy Countries – Noam Chomsky
“The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.”
Noam Chomsky
Repression of Kurds in the 1990s – Noam Chomsky
“By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.”
Noam Chomsky
Umberto Eco on Allusion, Spirit and the Heart
“Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.”
Umberto Eco