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 CHOMSKYLibertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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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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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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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 do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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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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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 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 most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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