If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
NOAM CHOMSKYConcentration 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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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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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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 this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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