Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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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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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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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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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