The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
NOAM CHOMSKYFidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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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 very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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