The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
NOAM CHOMSKYUnlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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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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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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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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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