The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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