In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
NOAM CHOMSKYOne of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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