Noam Chomsky Quotes
I've been interested in the reports on Rojava. It seems clear that there are positive developments.
Chomsky, Noam, and David Barsamian. Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy. Metropolitan Books, 2017, p. 112.
Actually the Iroquois had a very sophisticated system of regular laws and government some of which was incorporated into our Constitution. However, the Iroquois sided with the British in the American Revolution and at its conclusion, most were driven out of their New York lands and became refugees in British Canada. So by 1816, the Iroquois, the most sophisticated, powerful and affluent of all the American Indian tribes were no longer consequential in America.
Part of the problem lies in a part of the Muslim religion which values stability over all else except Islam itself. Traditionally Muslims have been told to tolerate a bad, corrupt leader, unless he is blasphemous. So dictators who can create an alliance between themselves and the religious influentials by giving them money and allowing them to control civil society as in Saudi Arabia, have been insulated from rebellion and revolutionary forces.
This newspaper was an English language organ published by General Allenby’s British and Allied forces in the Middle East. Prior to the war, the Middle East was all part of the Ottoman Empire. However, the Ottoman Turks sided with Germany in WWI and their Middle East dominions were targets for the allied military strategy.
This model has been used by many counties even into the 21st century to get the benefits of foreign know how and capital while preventing the foreign businesses to control parts of the nation and the economy. In this case, Cixi had allowed a telegraph company and two modern coal mining areas. The system works well provided the foreign interests do not bribe the native administrators who are appointed to oversee the activity. It takes two for bribery and other forms of corruption to work and unfortunately, Cixi ruled a culture where corruption, petty and large, was pervasive and traditional.
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
