Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
NOAM CHOMSKYOn the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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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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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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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.’
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