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

Noam Chomsky

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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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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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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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