That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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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 process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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