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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Age Ask Benefit Economic Health Insecure More Society Worker
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.’
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Accurate Election Fact Importance Meaningful More Place Sense Some Term
What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Abounded Act Courage Crisis Happen Make Petrified Thoughtfulness
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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Aggression Common Death Develop Frighten Genital People Sense
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Among Country Crime History Sot Start Unsealable
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
So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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Example Form Guy Imagine Individual Inherently Nicest Participate Slavery Tyranny
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Academic Among Discontent Economics Liberal Privilege Unnoticed
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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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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Congo Develop Development Horror Involve Murder Story Year
I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Appear Easily Fox More News
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Admire Any Country Dictator Media Obedience Uniformly

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