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.
NOAM CHOMSKYTwo days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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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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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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