If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
NOAM CHOMSKYI stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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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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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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