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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.

Noam Chomsky

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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Democracy Election Establish Fun Fund Hope Money Politics Public Real
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Among Control Democrat Ensure Industrial Nation System United
In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Category Country Mechanic Professor Same Talk
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Anymore Become Extreme Hard Overwhelmingly Party Political Republican Tradition
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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Anger Country Dislike Dissatisfaction Hatred Poil Repeat
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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Current Facility History Leisure Lie Minority Present Training Truth
It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Dangerous Give People Privacy Will
They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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Accept Anger Come Elite Government Recognition Reject
In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Bail Case Environment No One Out
The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Aggressive Country Least Major Military Power Threat
Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Ceausescu Country Dare Dictator Eastern Wordt
I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Cold Done Mean Weather Work
The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Absolute Credential Literally Professional Teach Truth
It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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Contempt Course Court Evidence Existence Follow Highest International Justice Obligation Receive
Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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Country Defiant Exist Nato Once Soviet Union Well Western
The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Accept Disobedience Godfather Money Not Pay Protection Small Storekeeper

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