I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
NOAM CHOMSKYIn the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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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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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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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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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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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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