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.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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