Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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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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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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