Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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