Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
NOAM CHOMSKYNineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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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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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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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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