Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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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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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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