There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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 principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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