The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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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 could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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