The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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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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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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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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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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