There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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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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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 probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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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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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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