If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
NOAM CHOMSKYIntellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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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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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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