Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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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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