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.
NOAM CHOMSKYAnti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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 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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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