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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

Noam Chomsky

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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Apprehend Attack Country Easily Kill Marathon Peaceful Strike Target
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
The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Big Extremist Gave Invasion Particular Shot
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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Design Globalisation Interest Investor Own Power Right Specific Term Wealth
The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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Concern General Inequality Issue Outstanding Policy Poll Probably Public Rose Sharp Show Significant
I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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Cockroach Decide Explain Human Psychoanalysis Something Think
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
But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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Attention Barbarian Been Country Need Pay See Thousand Three Year
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Admire Any Country Dictator Media Obedience Uniformly
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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Coalesce Control Group Investor Mean Occasion Sentence State
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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Among Control Democrat Ensure Industrial Nation System United
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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Advance All Ironic Leas Of One Pretty Protect Talk Try Us
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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Essential Existence Freedom Human Idea Phase Possible Survival Value
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Anglo Concept Concert Country Good Guilty Innocent Law Memories Presumption Use
I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Arrogance Atheist Business Child Dry Example Heaven Hope Join Lecture New Some
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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Aspiration Associate Children Decline Hope Hour Income Kind People Wek Work

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