Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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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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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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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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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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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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 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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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 Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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