Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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