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 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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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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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.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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