I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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