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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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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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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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