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Schweizer, Peter (January 30, 2006). "Noam Chomsky, Closet Capitalist". Hoover Institution. Archived from the original on May 23, 2023 . Retrieved May 12, 2023. Chomsky's far-reaching criticisms of U.S. foreign policy and the legitimacy of U.S. power have raised controversy. A document obtained pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the U.S. government revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) monitored his activities and for years denied doing so. The CIA also destroyed its files on Chomsky at some point, possibly in violation of federal law. [296] He has often received undercover police protection at MIT and when speaking on the Middle East but has refused uniformed police protection. [297] German news magazine Der Spiegel described Chomsky as "the Ayatollah of anti-American hatred", [136] while American conservative commentator David Horowitz called him "the most devious, the most dishonest and... the most treacherous intellect in America", whose work is infused with "anti-American dementia" and evidences his "pathological hatred of his own country". [298] Writing in Commentary magazine, the journalist Jonathan Kay described Chomsky as "a hard-boiled anti-American monomaniac who simply refuses to believe anything that any American leader says". [299] Mace, Mikayla (August 18, 2017). "Linguist Noam Chomsky joins University of Arizona faculty". Arizona Daily Star. Archived from the original on April 27, 2021 . Retrieved July 27, 2018. Chomsky, Noam (1996). Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian. Pluto Press. pp.135–136. ISBN 978-074531137-1. Glaser, John (November 18, 2012). "It is not a war. It is murder". antiwar.com. Archived from the original on November 8, 2017 . Retrieved June 13, 2019.

Gold, Daniel M. (January 28, 2016). "Review: Noam Chomsky Focuses on Financial Inequality in 'Requiem for the American Dream' ". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on August 17, 2021 . Retrieved June 1, 2016. Lyons 1978, p.6; Barsky 1997, pp.96–99; Sperlich 2006, p.41; McGilvray 2014, p.5; MacCorquodale 1970, pp.83–99. Seuren 1998, pp.166: "Both Hjelmslev and Harris were inspired by the mathematical notion of an algorithm as a purely formal production system for a set of strings of symbols. ... it is probably accurate to say that Hjelmslev was the first to try and apply it to the generation of strings of symbols in natural language"Burris, Greg (August 11, 2013). "What the Chomsky-Žižek debate tells us about Snowden's NSA revelations". The Guardian. Archived from the original on October 16, 2021 . Retrieved June 12, 2018.

Welcome aboard. For decades, Noam Chomsky has been the writer most highly-regarded by anti-imperialists, left-wing activists, and anyone who simply wants to challenge the way society programs us to think. Noam Chomsky on Life & Love: Still Going at 86, Renowned Dissident is Newly Married". Democracy Now!. March 3, 2015. Archived from the original on June 10, 2021 . Retrieved May 11, 2016.

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British Academy announces 2014 prize and medal winners". British Academy. July 24, 2014. Archived from the original on October 19, 2017 . Retrieved July 30, 2017. Deterring Democracy is one of Chomsky’s early core works. It contains perhaps, some of his most brilliant work on US imperialism. The book uncovers the hidden agendas behind US domestic and foreign policies. Chomsky argues that the US has never really prioritized morals but instead, tries to keep other countries in line to its own political and economic goals, thus, deterring democracy. To round up your starter Noam Chomsky reading list, don’t forget Power Systems. It’s a book that spans the most pressing modern issues we face in the world today. If you have to read only one Chomsky piece to set you off, it’s this.

Israel: Chomsky ban 'big mistake' ". Al Jazeera. May 20, 2010. Archived from the original on October 14, 2019 . Retrieved May 4, 2016.Before you jump on to Noam Chomsky literature, we recommend starting with this 12,000-word article. It’s the perfect introductory piece to the moral drive behind Chomsky’s thinking. de Bot, Kees (2015). A History of Applied Linguistics: From 1980 to the Present. Routledge. ISBN 978-113882065-4. If you want to jump ahead to Chomsky’s most recent essays, you should read Who Rules The World? The book explores the most pressing and relevant issues of our age and even includes an explosive final chapter on Donald Trump. Hamans, Camiel; Seuren, Pieter A. M. (2010). "Chomsky in search of a pedigree". In Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.). Chomskyan (R)evolutions. John Benjamins. pp.377–394. ISBN 978-9027211699. Archived from the original on November 28, 2021 . Retrieved December 23, 2020. Chomsky highlights that, since the 1970s, the U.S. has become increasingly economically unequal as a result of the repeal of various financial regulations and the unilateral rescinding of the Bretton Woods financial control agreement by the U.S. [201] He characterizes the U.S. as a de facto one-party state, viewing both the Republican Party and Democratic Party as manifestations of a single "Business Party" controlled by corporate and financial interests. [202] Chomsky has said that he considers Franklin D. Roosevelt the best U.S. president. [26] Chomsky highlights that, within Western capitalist liberal democracies, at least 80% of the population has no control over economic decisions, which are instead in the hands of a management class and ultimately controlled by a small, wealthy elite. [203]