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Noam Chomskyborn 1928

As the most powerful state, the U.S. makes its own laws, using force and conducting economic warfare at will.

Noam Chomsky on power

In Tony Evans (ed.), Human Rights Fifty Years on: A Reappraisal, 1997

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