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.
NOAM CHOMSKYI would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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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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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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