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Privatization is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all… it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World.

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Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.
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Human Integrity Project Right
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.
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Money Politics Reaction Reality Reason Resistance Scare
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
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Bone Break Constitution Ordinary Story
That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
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Care Love People Word
If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.
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Ability Angry Emotion Lose Myself
He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.
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Fear Hairs Hands Himself Love Relationship Rose
When people say “the people” or “the public” as though it’s the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.
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Moral Myself People Reaction
Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.
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Acceptance Change
To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We think they are relics of the past, but they may be the gatekeepers to our future.
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Future Live Ourselves Past People Practice Thinking
How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain’s festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international con�icts of today.
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Care Civilization Gift Power Present World
The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.
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Creation Oneself People Place
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.
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Corruption Death Freedom Injustice Justice Mindset Nation Poor Prison Silence Talk Writing
The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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Beyond Life Way World
You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
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Beginning Horror Risk Tranquility Work
Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
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Difference One Liner Sick Terrorism
What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.
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Death End Live Perspective

Privatization is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all… it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World.

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Privatization is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all… it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World.

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