It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf 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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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 the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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