That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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