The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
NOAM CHOMSKYGovernments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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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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