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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.

Noam Chomsky

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Brand Censor Effect Experience Imagination Individual Suffer
The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Childcare Credit Make Sense Some Tax
I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Appear Easily Fox More News
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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Another Fear Hate People Policy Publically Shape
I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Arrogance Atheist Business Child Dry Example Heaven Hope Join Lecture New Some
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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Contempt Course Court Evidence Existence Follow Highest International Justice Obligation Receive
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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Court Foundation Known Liberty Most Perhaps Strike Supreme Tradition
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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Achievement Advertisement Amount Come Dynamic Entrepreneur Initiative Profit Sector Socialize Cause State Tremendous Want
I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Cold Done Mean Weather Work
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Civilian Innocent Kill Terrorism Wanton
Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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Country Defiant Exist Nato Once Soviet Union Well Western
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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Accept Anger Come Elite Government Recognition Reject
If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Aspiration Associate Children Decline Hope Hour Income Kind People Wek Work
NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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Believe Constructed Country Defend Nato Reason Western
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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Concern General Inequality Issue Outstanding Policy Poll Probably Public Rose Sharp Show Significant
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Believe Desire Expression Freedom People
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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Ahead Block Come Effort Every Misery Overcome People Poverty Step Time
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Among Control Democrat Ensure Industrial Nation System United
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment Idea Inheritor Liberal Liberalization Properly Regard Socialism
The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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Design Globalisation Interest Investor Own Power Right Specific Term Wealth
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Above Change Come Gift Progress Really Struggle
Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Civil Disobedience Fun No
A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Country Disaster Ulter War
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Against Argument I Meed Use Violence
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Colorless Furiously Green Idea Sleep
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Bludgeon Democracy Propaganda State Totalitarian
The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Front Kill Other People Target Terrorist Weapon

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