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.
NOAM CHOMSKYHuman language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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