There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
NOAM CHOMSKYPerhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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