That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
NOAM CHOMSKYTwo 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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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