Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
NOAM CHOMSKYNationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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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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 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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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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