The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
NOAM CHOMSKYI don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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