You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
NOAM CHOMSKYNicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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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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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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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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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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