The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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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 internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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 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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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