Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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 leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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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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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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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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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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to 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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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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