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" Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. "
Noam Chomsky
Propaganda
Democracy
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" 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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" Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. "
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" The Internet has compromised the quality of debate. "
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" Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place. "
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" By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state. "
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" If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you. "
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" Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and - together with other criminal states - for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires. "
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" The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour. "
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" Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg. "
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" As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression. "
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" By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti. "
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" I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state. "
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" In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends. "
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Thoughts
Information
" 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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Freedom
Great
" As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they're developing what's called 'nuclear capability,' which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That's not a crime. "
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Know
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" The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. "
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Myself
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" What's important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it's very high-quality oil, so very valuable. "
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May
More
" Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts. "
Noam Chomsky
Order
Become
World
" Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible. "
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Security
Isolation
" In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly - 80-90%, numbers like that - Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don't like Iran - Arabs generally don't like Iran - but they didn't consider it a threat. "
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" The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free. "
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Rich
" As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world. "
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" In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years. "
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Years
Vietnam
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" Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. "
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Forth
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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. "
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" It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open. "
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Years
Open
" 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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Consent
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" Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. "
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" My proposal happens to be very mainstream. "
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" Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. 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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