Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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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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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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