The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
NOAM CHOMSKYPropaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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