The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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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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I 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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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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