Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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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.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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Death 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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