Governments don’t control people like they used to.
NOAM CHOMSKYInternational affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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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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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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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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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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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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