The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
NOAM CHOMSKYHistory shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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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 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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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