There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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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.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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 elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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