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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right 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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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