The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
From Noam Chomsky
The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.
The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
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 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.
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.
In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn - the climax of a 'day of awe,' as the press described it.
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
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