American - Activist | December 7, 1928 -
Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
Noam Chomsky
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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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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To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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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 Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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