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All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.
For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination.
There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.
Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no matter how many guns you have.
State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.
It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And that's quite generally true.
The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.
Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.
Any incident could instantly blow up. Both sides [USA and Russia] are modernizing and increasing their military systems, including nuclear systems.
When I was growing up in the 1930s and '40s anti-Semitism was rampant. It wasn't like Nazi Germany but it was pretty serious - it was part of life.
The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.
It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination.
If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States.
Sometimes people are primed to hear in a certain way. When a word like braggadocious suddenly appears, it's like, 'What, is he just making that up?'
The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.
The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues and that's not their concern.
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.
Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.
If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, . . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second.
We should therefore be opposed to institutional barriers to that freedom: Military dictatorships, for example. Or states run by a Central Committee.
The Republicans went so far to the right that they just can't get votes. They've become a dedicated party of the very rich and the corporate sector.
The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.
In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.
The developing world voice can be amplified enormously by support from the wealthy and the privileged, otherwise it's very likely to be marginalized.
Every wave of immigrants who came [to America] were treated pretty badly, but when they all finally became integrated, all of us became Anglo-Saxons.
[Companies that specialized in how to destroy unions] don't make it a secret, and they have all sorts of techniques for management to destroy unions.
The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.
If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a pretty serious problem. In fact, we'd probably go to war.
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'
The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways.
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.
In fact, I was in a lab that was a hundred percent funded by the Pentagon, and it was one of the centers of the organized antiwar resistance movement.
You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.
Those of us lucky enough to have a share of privilege in the more free societies should not be asking this question, but doing something to answer it.
You know, you can go to the fiftieth thing on a Google list and that's the one you want, but the ones you are going to be directed to are the funders.
In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways.
We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it.
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.
If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.
ISIS is a monstrosity. It didn't come from nowhere. It's one of the results of the U.S. hitting a very vulnerable society - Iraq - with a sledgehammer.
It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean. Are we different from ants?