The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
NOAM CHOMSKYI took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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The 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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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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 very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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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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