That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
NOAM CHOMSKYUp until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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