Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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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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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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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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It 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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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