Noam Chomsky Quotes
Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether it does or not is another question.
Chomsky, Noam. Global Discontents: Conversations on the Essential Threats to Our Time. Interviews with David Barsamian, Metropolitan Books, 2017.
The excessive quantities of soda consumed by Americans has contributed to the large proportion of obesity and other poor health consequences. The corporations profiting greatly by sale of soda followed the pattern set by the tobacco companies a generation before.
She was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and was the first Black woman to actively campaign for the Presidency
In the 1960s, the cigarette companies and their lobbyists paid consultants and some scientists to demonstrate that tobacco did not cause cancer. By the beginning of the 21st century, the practice of lobbyist bought research was very common. The lobbyists realized that their many might alter the approach and quality of the research so the results would support their political points of view. If the studies did not, the lobbyists and industries simply did not make the results public, and the terms of their financing often prohibited the consultants from releasing information on their own,
In America and Canada, corporations, at their discretion, may leave a state/province or the country, and take their money, machines, and key people with them. The state and country lose the benefit of the employment the corporation enabled, the talent and productivity of the people who leave, and the business done by other companies in supporting the corporation. As a result corporations can not only lobby for whatever legislative outcome they want, and can give unlimited campaign contributions, but they can simply threaten to move to another state of offshore if they do not get their way. In many other nations, the corporations cannot move without permission and their assets can be frozen. Currency controls could prevent them from taking their money and running. The Freedom of the United States and Canada is well worth the risk of corporations dictating policy to government, but that is a very undesirable and undemocratic problem that must be faced in other ways
He made this quotation when he was a member of the Wisconsin State legislator. He was describing the influence and interaction that corporations had with the Wisconsin state legislative process.
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.
