The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
NOAM CHOMSKYI mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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 Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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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 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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