The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
NOAM CHOMSKYRomania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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