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" Obama, of course, outspent McCain. "
Noam Chomsky
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" Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. "
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" There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - 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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" Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first. "
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" Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for a long time, and it's illegal in most countries - in the air controller strike. "
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