I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
NOAM CHOMSKYBy and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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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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