The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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