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.
NOAM CHOMSKYSo slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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