If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
NOAM CHOMSKYInternational affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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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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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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