International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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