Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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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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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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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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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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One 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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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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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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