The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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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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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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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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