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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

Noam Chomsky

In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Basically Business Democrat Function One Party Republican
Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Court Foundation Known Liberty Most Perhaps Strike Supreme Tradition
That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Citizen Do Government Law Secret State Suppose
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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Administration Cold Dean Favorite Historian Reagan Regard Scholarship War
There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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Anger Country Dislike Dissatisfaction Hatred Poil Repeat
The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Bank Central Commitment Country Employment First Keep Only Up
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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Alien Control Crime Drug Fear Immigrants Increase More Mother People
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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Hero May People Primary Stood Think
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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Democracy Election Establish Fun Fund Hope Money Politics Public Real
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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Aggression Common Death Develop Frighten Genital People Sense
If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Ago Dead Filed Teach Today Year
On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Everything Go Internet Public Think
But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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Accordance General Imaginable Intend Most Necesasarly Responsibility
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Cannot Consumption Control Distract Population
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Amaze Long Mars Observe Probably Service
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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Believe Constructed Country Defend Nato Reason Western

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