It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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