All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
NOAM CHOMSKYPerhaps 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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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.
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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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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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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 term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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