The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
NOAM CHOMSKY
International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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 European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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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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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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 has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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