Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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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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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 godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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