I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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