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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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