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.
NOAM CHOMSKYUnlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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