A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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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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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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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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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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