Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
NOAM CHOMSKYFrance 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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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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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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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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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 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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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