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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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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 Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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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