The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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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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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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