If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
NOAM CHOMSKYAll 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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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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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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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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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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