Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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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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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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