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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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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.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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