It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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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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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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