The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, 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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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