I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
NOAM CHOMSKYNineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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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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Up 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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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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.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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