If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhen 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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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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.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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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 childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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