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 CHOMSKYGovernments don’t control people like they used to.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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 murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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