The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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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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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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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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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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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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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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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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