That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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