Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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 is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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