So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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