Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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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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