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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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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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The 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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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