Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
NOAM CHOMSKYEvery time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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