Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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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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 truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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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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