I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
NOAM CHOMSKYAny dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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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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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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