What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
NOAM CHOMSKYAny dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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