The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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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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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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