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You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.
I really suggest listening to talk radio. I mean, if you just listen to what the talk hosts are saying, they sound like they are lunatics.
Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.
We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in the past.
The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized.
For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.
I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read a 19th century novel.
Pakistan is not a unified country. In large parts of the country, the state is regarded as a Punjabi state, not their (the people's) state.
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.
What the polls don't tell you is, though other polls do, is that if you do a study of CEOs, top executives in corporations, they're liberal.
If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.
As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.
It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison.
There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.
By that time [1966], we did begin to get some protests [against Vietnam War]. But not from liberal intellectuals; they never opposed the war.
When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.
There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.
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 kill.
The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it.
The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.
I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
The Republican establishment, the mainstream corporate financial wealth, is getting to a point where it can't control the base it's mobilized.
While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or evolution.
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.
Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's a very destructive ideology.
You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence.
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.
Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They're trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Concision is a technique of propaganda. It ensures you cannot do anything except repeat clichés, the standard doctrine, or sound like a lunatic.
There is a big difference between tweeting to your friend about something that is happening and having a real personal relationship with people.
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.
Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip.
But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.
About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and controversial.
The Left, in a general sense, is very much atomized. We live in highly atomized societies. People are pretty much alone; it's you and your iPad.
Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.
It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself. And that can be done at any level.
I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.
Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.
Starting with [Ronald] Regan it became quite open, the attack on unions. It wasn't the Pinkertons anymore, but it was just not applying the laws.
They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States.
The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations.
My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.