The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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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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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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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