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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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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.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Two 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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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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