I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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