The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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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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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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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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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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