I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
NOAM CHOMSKYOn the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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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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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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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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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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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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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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