The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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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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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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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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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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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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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 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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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