Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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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 very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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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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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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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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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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