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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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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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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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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