I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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