The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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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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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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