The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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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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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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