The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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