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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.

Noam Chomsky

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Agent Impose Institution Moral More People Powerful Standard State
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Civilian Innocent Kill Terrorism Wanton
In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Basically Business Democrat Function One Party Republican
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Assumption Discussion Rational Share Significant Useful
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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Association Assumption Classical Consequence Deeper Diversity Free Intervention Liberal Need State True
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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Country Economic Enormous Growth Highest History Period
I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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Attribute Conceive Experience Foreign Lot Policy Useful
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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Idea Important Listen Obedience Order Otherwise Place Spread
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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Alien Control Crime Drug Fear Immigrants Increase More Mother People
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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Among Control Democrat Ensure Industrial Nation System United
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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Achievement Advertisement Amount Come Dynamic Entrepreneur Initiative Profit Sector Socialize Cause State Tremendous Want
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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Accept Anger Come Elite Government Recognition Reject
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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Apprehend Attack Country Easily Kill Marathon Peaceful Strike Target
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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Challenge Education Environment Individual Opportunity Provide Rich
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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Accord Analyze Cause Expose Government Hidden Intension Itelluction Motive Often Position
There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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Concern Enormous Environment Ethnic Event Globe Instance International Movement Right Solidarity Term

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