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.
NOAM CHOMSKYBy and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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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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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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