Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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