Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
NOAM CHOMSKYChanges and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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 process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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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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