NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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 this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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