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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.

Noam Chomsky

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Cannot Consumption Control Distract Population
If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Achieve Basis Build Something Want
There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Catastrophe Environment Knowledge Nuclear Problem Species Toward
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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Design Globalisation Interest Investor Own Power Right Specific Term Wealth
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Current Facility History Leisure Lie Minority Present Training Truth
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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Believe Desire Expression Freedom People
In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Action Atrocity Chosen Country Court Escalate Violence
It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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Development Easier Internet Library Much Undoubtfully
If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Age Ask Benefit Economic Health Insecure More Society Worker
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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Association Assumption Classical Consequence Deeper Diversity Free Intervention Liberal Need State True
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.
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Court Foundation Known Liberty Most Perhaps Strike Supreme Tradition
The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Almost Episode Insane Truth Whole
Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Dress Nationalism Other Way
What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Abounded Act Courage Crisis Happen Make Petrified Thoughtfulness
Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Lose My Sometimes Temper
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Amaze Long Mars Observe Probably Service

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