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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Noam Chomsky

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
The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Cold Country Figure Lead Professor Scholarship War
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment Idea Inheritor Liberal Liberalization Properly Regard Socialism
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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Attitude Engineer History Modern Opinion Perception Process Relation Shape Term
Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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Country Defiant Exist Nato Once Soviet Union Well Western
If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Age Ask Benefit Economic Health Insecure More Society Worker
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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Idea Important Listen Obedience Order Otherwise Place Spread
Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Civil Disobedience Fun No
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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Among Control Democrat Ensure Industrial Nation System United
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Card Credit Debt Enormous Especial Large Student Trap
I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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Bomb Chungking Country No On People Position Relative Scale Stand Took
It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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Development Easier Internet Library Much Undoubtfully
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 truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Almost Episode Insane Truth Whole
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Bible Book Genocidal History Most One

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