In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
NOAM CHOMSKY
In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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 United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory 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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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