The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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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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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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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