I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
NOAM CHOMSKYPropaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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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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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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