The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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