The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
NOAM CHOMSKYAs soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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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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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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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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There’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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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