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Noam Chomsky

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Action Atrocity Chosen Country Court Escalate Violence
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Aggression Common Death Develop Frighten Genital People Sense
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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Democracy Election Establish Fun Fund Hope Money Politics Public Real
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Country Good Harbor Many Omb Pearl Thing Very
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
If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Favour Fundamental Good Moral People Policy Reason Reform Stability Whatever
That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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Accurate Election Fact Importance Meaningful More Place Sense Some Term
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Choose Comfort Illusion Live World
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
There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Gap Opinion Policy Public Tremendous
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
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Anymore Become Extreme Hard Overwhelmingly Party Political Republican Tradition
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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Example Form Guy Imagine Individual Inherently Nicest Participate Slavery Tyranny
It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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Contempt Course Court Evidence Existence Follow Highest International Justice Obligation Receive
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
Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Eight Excite Larger Minten Movement Range Sixty Spawned

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