There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
NOAM CHOMSKYGovernments don’t control people like they used to.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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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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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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