The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
NOAM CHOMSKYFidel 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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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 U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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