Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
NOAM CHOMSKYI mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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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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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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