Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
NOAM CHOMSKYPropaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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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 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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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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