There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
NOAM CHOMSKY
The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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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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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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