Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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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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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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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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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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