That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
NOAM CHOMSKYSome may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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