What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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 money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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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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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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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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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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