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.
NOAM CHOMSKYDeath and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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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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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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.
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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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