It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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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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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.
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