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.
NOAM CHOMSKYAs 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 European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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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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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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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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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