Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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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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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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