Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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