That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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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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