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" It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons. "
Noam Chomsky
Attack
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" You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English. "
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" In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. "
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" For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. "
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" Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat. "
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" It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos. "
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" The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously. "
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" The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well. "
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" The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power. "
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People
Power
" Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery. "
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" The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. 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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Gone
Security
" Governments don't control people like they used to. "
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Control
Like
" I have been - I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times. "
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Spoken
Times
Been
" If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities. "
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You
True
People
" The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it. "
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Effort
Problem
" 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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You
Immigrants
" In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states. "
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" The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has rather traditional nativist streaks to it. But what is much more important, I think, is the - is its outrage. "
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Party
You
Think
" If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works. "
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World
Day
" I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors. "
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Before
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" In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America. "
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" Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.' "
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" Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. "
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" There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't duplicate that on blogs. "
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Source
Media
" There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control. "
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" Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy. "
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You
Rest
Life
" Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college. "
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College
Family
" There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense. "
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Which
Record
Theory
" 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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" There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it. "
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