Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
NOAM CHOMSKYNineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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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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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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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