Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
NOAM CHOMSKYFor 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 United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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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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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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