Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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