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- All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that…
- The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit,…
- The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the…
- As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these…
- Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we…
- It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The…
- Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no one else will…
- A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the…
- The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
- The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on…
- You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence.
- Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is…
- Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing…
- I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge…
- The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to…
- The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions,…
- It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.
- 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…
- Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
- Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very…
- When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to…
- Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
- Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
- All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that…
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