The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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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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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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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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 United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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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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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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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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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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