What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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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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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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