All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
NOAM CHOMSKYOnce 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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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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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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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