You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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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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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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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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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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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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