The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
NOAM CHOMSKYNo matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the 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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