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.
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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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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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 United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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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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