Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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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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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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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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