But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
NOAM CHOMSKYThat’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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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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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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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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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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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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