The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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