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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Noam Chomsky

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Bludgeon Democracy Propaganda State Totalitarian
There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Gap Opinion Policy Public Tremendous
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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Age Ask Benefit Economic Health Insecure More Society Worker
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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Contempt Course Court Evidence Existence Follow Highest International Justice Obligation Receive
There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Catastrophe Environment Knowledge Nuclear Problem Species Toward
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Conversation Doctrine Either Every New Repeat Same Say Something Time
Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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Destruction Mass Mean Missile Remember Weapon
International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Affair International Mafia Much Run
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Congo Develop Development Horror Involve Murder Story Year
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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Accordance General Imaginable Intend Most Necesasarly Responsibility
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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Argue Coul Like Neuroscientist Plausibly Rather View
NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Bato Country Essentially Run
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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Academic Clerical Professor Routine Work World
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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Development Easier Internet Library Much Undoubtfully
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Aggression Common Death Develop Frighten Genital People Sense
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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Concentration Employment High Increase Legislation Political Power Rise Wealth Yield

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