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.
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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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