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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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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.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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 very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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I 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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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