Tag: Chomsky
A forma mais profunda de controle político é o controle da verdade: as pessoas podem querer ignorar a política, mas não podem querer ignorar a verdade sobre os fatos.
The most profound form of political control is the control of truth: people may want to ignore politics, but they cannot want to ignore the truth.
In mid-April, we hosted renowned linguist, political analyst, and activist Noam Chomsky for a speaking and Q&A event at Lehigh University as part of the Douglas Dialogues forum.
The US power alliance could very easily have prevented this war with a few low-cost concessions like enshrining Ukrainian neutrality, rolling back its war machinery from Russia’s borders and sincerely pursuing detente with Moscow instead of shredding treaties and ramping up cold war escalations. Hell, it could likely have prevented this war just by protecting President Zelensky from the anti-Moscow far right nationalists who were openly threatening to lynch him if he began honoring the Minsk agreements and pursuing peace with Russia, as he was originally elected to do.
