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.
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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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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 elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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