You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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 truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Perhaps 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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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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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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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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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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