Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
NOAM CHOMSKYThat’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 Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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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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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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