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.
NOAM CHOMSKYGovernments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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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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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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