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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThat’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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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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