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.
NOAM CHOMSKYWanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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