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Noam Chomsky

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Conversation Doctrine Either Every New Repeat Same Say Something Time
In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Category Country Mechanic Professor Same Talk
Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Eight Excite Larger Minten Movement Range Sixty Spawned
The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Cold Country Figure Lead Professor Scholarship War
Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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Bring Build Deep Ever Exist History Now Once Point
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
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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Accurate Election Fact Importance Meaningful More Place Sense Some Term
The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Cash Cow Media Money Politics
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
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
NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Bato Country Essentially Run
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Assumption Discussion Rational Share Significant Useful
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment Idea Inheritor Liberal Liberalization Properly Regard Socialism
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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Concentration Employment High Increase Legislation Political Power Rise Wealth Yield
NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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Believe Constructed Country Defend Nato Reason Western

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