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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.

Noam Chomsky

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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Apocalyse Contemplate Equanimity Estimate High Person Probability Realistic Same Surely Too
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Bible Book Genocidal History Most One
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Current Facility History Leisure Lie Minority Present Training Truth
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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Ahead Block Come Effort Every Misery Overcome People Poverty Step Time
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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Accomplice Antic Gradually Hardly Most Nixon Reveal Surprise
If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Aspiration Associate Children Decline Hope Hour Income Kind People Wek Work
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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Anglo Concept Concert Country Good Guilty Innocent Law Memories Presumption Use
The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Bank Central Commitment Country Employment First Keep Only Up
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Administration Cold Dean Favorite Historian Reagan Regard Scholarship War
France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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Call Country Course Force Independent Initial Policy
Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Country Immediate Make Separate State Sure Two United
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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Action Arise Choice Decision Human Loss Question Reason Science Soon
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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All Constant Cultural Decision Helpless Make Over People Place Pressure Propaganda Ratify Role System
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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Bring Build Deep Ever Exist History Now Once Point
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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Create Generation Language Law Manner Principle Process Use
Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Ceausescu Country Dare Dictator Eastern Wordt

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