On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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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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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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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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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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