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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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