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The freer the society the more sophisticated its system of thought control and indoctrination.The ruling elite, clever and class-conscious, make sure of that...

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6 years

For those who stubbornly seek freedom there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms & practices of indoctrination.These are easy to perceive in totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of brainwashing under freedom to which we are subjected.

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. @BernieSanders ..infuriated the liberal establishment by committing a major crime..His crime was to organize an ongoing..movement that doesn’t just show up..every 4 years & push a button..That’s no good.The rabble is supposed to stay home.Their job is to watch not to participate.

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A crucial part of the ideology is that you’re allowed to criticize Congress, the president, local politicians. You’re allowed to say they’re all crooks. But you’re not allowed to say that the corporate system is at the heart of it all. In fact you’re not even allowed to see that.

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Of course there are differences (between #Democrats & #Republicans ) but they're not fundamental.Nobody should have any illusions.The #UnitedStates has essentially a one-party system - and the ruling party is the business party. #Chomsky #StateCapitalism #BrainwashingUnderFreedom

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Most people aren't liars.They can't tolerate too much cognitive dissonance. I don't want to deny there are outright liars, just brazen propagandists..But I don't think that's the norm.The norm is obedience, adoption of uncritical attitudes, taking the easy path of self-deception.

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If you had a real capitalist economy in place...capitalists who made risky investments and failed would be wiped out. But the rich & powerful do not want a capitalist system. They want to be able to run the nanny state so when they are in trouble the taxpayer will bail them out.

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( #Capitalism ) is based on quite brutal assumptions. The very idea there should be a class of people who give orders by virtue of their ownership of wealth, and another class who take orders and follow them because of their lack of access to wealth and power - that's unacceptable.

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We..pretend to be a democracy but we're really a plutocracy.The more wealth you have the more political power you have...as you concentrate wealth you concentrate political power and that...leads to legislation which concentrates wealth further. You have a vicious cycle going on.

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Both Britain and the United States have a long history of supporting extremist radical Islam as a barrier against secular nationalism.

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(The Internet is) a technique of subordination..a device to degrade & control people. To create wants, to impose a philosophy of futility, to focus..attention on..superficial aspects of life, and to..keep them from the dangerous activity of interacting with one another. #Chomsky

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The belief in #markets is a religious belief. Rationally, we know of all kinds of fundamental..."inefficiencies" in markets. But the belief they can solve everything and that everything can have a value determined by the market - I think you can regard that as a religious belief.

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The idea of teaching to tests is a technique for creating people to serve in the Marine Corps, or the equivalent form of conformity-to-orders in society - It is not the way to create or allow the self-creation of creative individuals living in a functioning democratic society.

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4 years

The one country governed by an indigenous majority, #Bolivia ...produced a People’s Agreement calling for sharp reductions in (greenhouse) emissions as well as a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth.These are key demands of indigenous communities all over the world.

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(Corporations are) not supposed to do nice things. If they are, it’s probably illegal, unless it’s intended to mollify people, or improve market share..That’s the way it works. You don’t expect corporations to be benevolent any more than you expect dictatorships to be benevolent.

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Traditional libertarianism is opposed to domination, hierarchy & authority. American libertarianism isn't concerned with these at all...its policies...are designed to create a very extreme form of authority & domination in the hands of unaccountable institutions, private capital.

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Because the concept of #capitalism , just like the concept of democracy, is just gone. Nobody knows what it is. Democracy means: Deceive people into doing what the rich people want. And #markets means: Making sure the public subsidize the rich. #Chomsky #WhenWordsLoseTheirMeaning

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What is called #AmericanExceptionalism - the notion we are unique in history; there is the fundamental benevolence of our leaders; they..make mistakes but always with good intentions.That is one of the most dangerous beliefs. It's a religious belief and has no foundation in fact.

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It’s hard to believe but for the Pentagon, Cuba was listed as 1 of the military threats to the US until a couple of years ago.This is so ludicrous you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. It’s as if the USSR listed Luxembourg as a threat to its security.But here it kind of passes.

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The rhetoric employed on both sides (of the Cold War) is similar, and is generally parroted by the intelligentsia in each camp.

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You control what people think...by creating the illusion there’s a debate going on but making sure that debate stays within...narrow margins.Namely, you have to make sure both sides in the debate accept certain assumptions...those assumptions turn out to be the propaganda system.

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The state is there to provide security and support to the interests of the privileged and powerful sectors in society while the rest of the population is left to experience the brutal reality of capitalism - Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor. #Chomsky #FreeMarkets

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Market economies were imposed by force along with the inhuman ideology that lies behind them.Ultimately when people are involved in them they accommodate to them and they change - You become the kind of pathological individual who can read Ayn Rand and not be disgusted. #Chomsky

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Take the Genocide Convention.The US finally signed it after about 40 years but with the condition that it was inapplicable to us...that was upheld by the courts in a case that was brought by Yugoslavia...in general the US is immune to (international) law - It's pretty well known.

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Most people are not liars.They can’t tolerate too much cognitive dissonance.I don’t want to deny there are outright liars...brazen propagandists...But I don’t think that’s the norm.The norm is obedience, adoption of uncritical attitudes, taking the easy path of self-deception.

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(Adam Smith is)worshipped but not read,so for e.g. everyone's heard of the phrase "invisible hand" but almost no-one knows how he used it,the term "invisible hand" actually does appear in his classic Wealth of Nations once - in an argument against what's now called neo-liberalism

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We've been sold a line for 50 years of intense corporate #propaganda that the government is the enemy..Well in practice the description is not inaccurate.The government is to a large extent the enemy - but the reason is that it's so largely under the control of private tyrannies.

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The radical pacifist message of the #Gospels (was)..abandoned when #EmperorConstantine in the 4th century adopted #Christianity as the official doctrine of the #RomanEmpire - turning the #church of the persecuted, into the church of the persecutors 🇻🇦 #Christ #Chomsky #Christmas

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Cotton was the oil of the 18th & 19th century. You had to have cheap cotton. You don’t get that by following the rules they teach you in the economics department. You get it by vicious, brutal slavery.That’s laid the basis for...textile manufacturing, finance, commerce, retail...

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Terms like capitalism & socialism have been so evacuated of..meaning that I don't like to use them.There's nothing remotely like capitalism in existence. To the extent there ever was, it disappeared by the 20's..Every industrial society is one form or another of state capitalism.

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There are all sorts of filtering devices to get rid of people who are a pain in the neck and think independently.Those of you who've been through college know the educational system is highly geared to rewarding conformity & obedience; if you don't do that, you're a troublemaker.

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#BertrandRussell ...was one of the very few...intellectuals who opposed WWI. He was vilified and...ended up in jail...he was bitterly denounced...as...anti-American...Because he was standing up for principles other intellectuals also accepted - but he was doing something about it.

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All of that increases the #GDP . You make people sicker by polluting the atmosphere.That increases the GDP because they've to go to the hospital and..pay doctors and..have to have drugs..In fact, what increases the GDP is not a measure of welfare in any meaningful sense. #Chomsky

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The attitude toward Islam is...complex.The US has always supported the most extreme fundamentalist Islamic movements...The...most valued ally of the US...is Saudi Arabia, which is...the most extremist fundamentalist state. By comparison, Iran looks like a free democratic society.

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( #Orwell ) wrote an introduction to #AnimalFarm which was suppressed. It only appeared 30 yrs later. Someone found it in his papers...what it says is that obviously this book is ridiculing the #USSR and its #totalitarian structure - but he said England is not all that different.

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Britain had to make a choice (after WW2): would it be just another country, or would it be a junior partner of the US? It accepted the role of junior partner..that’s what it’s been ever since. It brings to the table centuries of experience brutalizing & murdering foreign peoples.

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The first slaves came in 1619..There have been..3 or 4 decades in which (blacks) had a limited degree of freedom..for black elites there are..privileges but..the mass of the population..has been re-criminalized..turned into a slave labor force (prison labor) - This is US history.

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In fact, the whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on - because they are dysfunctional to the institutions.

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A #corporation , factory, or business is the economic equivalent of #fascism : decisions and control are strictly top-down. People are not compelled to purchase the products or rent themselves to survive - but those are the sole choices. #Chomsky #StateCapitalism #CorporateTyranny

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In the 1800's a new concentration of power came along...namely corporate power; that had a degree of influence...well beyond what the Founding Fathers could have foreseen.Yet their principles would lead you to ask exactly that question: Why should we be subordinated to the boss?

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(Anarchy) involves mutual aid, cooperation, as close as you can get to pure democracy, real popular control over all institutions.

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#Reagan ...hated poor people with a passion. So...during the lettuce strike Reagan was governor of California. He...appeared on television...eating lettuce..to show what he thought about the..workers, the poorest of the poor. If he can kick them in the face, great - He loved that.

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Unmentionable in the free press is the international Gallup poll that asked which country is the greatest threat to world peace: the US, no one else even close. Iran barely mentioned — in contradiction to the US mantra...that #Iran is the greatest threat to peace. #Chomsky

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The US isn't a democracy & has never been intended to be a democracy. It's what's called in the political science literature a polyarchy.A polyarchy is one in which a small sector of the population is in control of essential decision-making for the economy, the political system..

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By the..80s, it’s going back to criminalization of black life. It’s called the drug war..a racist war..Reagan was an extreme racist..the whole drug war is designed, from policing..to..release from prison to make it impossible, for the black male community..to be part of..society.

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It is much more difficult to see a propaganda system at work where the media are private and formal censorship is absent. This is especially true where the media...portray themselves as spokesmen for free speech...What is not evident...is the limited nature of such critiques.

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#WW2 against Germany was fought by the Russians. #Nazi forces were overwhelmingly on the eastern front..You have to ask if the best way to get rid of #Hitler was to kill tens of millions of Russians.Maybe a better way was not supporting him in the first place - as the UK & US did.

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I do not feel that we should set up people as models; rather actions, thoughts, principles. I have never heard of anyone who was a model person in all aspects of his or her life...nor do I see why anyone should care. We are not engaged in idol worship, after all. #Chomsky

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The phrase “discovery of America” is obviously inaccurate.What they discovered was an America that had been discovered thousands of years before by its inhabitants.Thus, what took place was the invasion of America — an invasion by a very alien culture. #HappyColumbusDay #Chomsky

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It's hard to find words to describe the fact that the most powerful country in world history (the US) is not only withdrawing from global efforts to address a truly existential threat ( #ClimateChange ) - but is also dedicating itself to accelerating the race to disaster. #Chomsky

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Suppose I'm out of work and you...offer me 10 cents a day and if I don’t have that I’ll starve...we could make a...contract...I get 10 cents...and you get my labor, which is worth...$100 a day and you enrich yourself...That's called a “free contract.”...that is US libertarianism.

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#Marxism ...belongs in the history of organized religion...any concept with a person’s name on it belongs to religion, not rational discourse.There aren’t any physicists who call themselves Einsteinians...the same would be true of anybody crazy enough to call themselves Chomskyan.

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It's quite striking that propaganda is most developed & sophisticated in the more free societies.The public relations industry, which is the advertising industry, is mostly propaganda, a lot of it is commercial propaganda, but also thought control. #Chomsky #ManufacturingConsent

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(One method of thought control) is by creating the illusion there's a debate going on, but making sure that debate stays within very narrow margins. Namely, you have to make sure both sides...accept certain assumptions - and those assumptions turn out to be the propaganda system.

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The population are regarded as “ignorant & meddlesome outsiders” whose role is to be “spectators”..apart from periodic opportunities to choose among representatives of private power. These are..called elections. In elections, public opinion is considered essentially irrelevant...

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We don’t use the term “working class” here because it’s a taboo term. You’re supposed to say “middle class" - because it helps diminish the understanding that there’s a #ClassWar going on. #Marx #Chomsky #RulingClass #StateCapitalism #InvertedMarxism #WhenWordsLoseTheirMeaning

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Power systems do not give gifts willingly. You will occasionally...find a benevolent dictator or slave owner who decides to free his slaves, but these are a statistical anomaly.Those with power will typically try to sustain and expand their power - that’s true of parliaments too.

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Only two groups are allowed to be class-conscious in the US. One of them is the business community, which is rabidly class-conscious. When you read their literature, it's all full of the danger of the masses & their rising power...It's kind of vulgar, inverted #Marxism . #Chomsky

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It's impossible to overlook the fact that the most powerful state in human history is under the leadership of...a gang of arch-criminals who are dedicated to racing to the cliff with abandon - It's hard even to find words to capture the scale of the crimes they are contemplating.

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Let's imagine something..unimaginable.The leadership of a country with the world's finest health system..decides to dismantle & replace it with the system that's..the most costly, bureaucratic & ineffective in the developed world apparently under the influence of rigid doctrine..

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Honoured to have the endorsement of Noam Chomsky for the new, expanded and updated edition of How to Dismantle the NHS in 10 Easy Steps ⁦ @NhsDismantling ⁩

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We must bear in mind that we live in the Age of #Orwell in which every term has 2 meanings: its literal meaning, largely irrelevant in practice, and the operative meaning, devised in the interest of established power. #Chomsky #BrainwashingUnderFreedom #WhenWordsLoseTheirMeaning

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In fact (Syriza) actually called a referendum (in Greece), which horrified Europe: the idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites - how can democracy even be permitted?(even in the country where it was created).

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The #US is a big power. Small countries hire individual #terrorists like Carlos the Jackal. The US hires #terrorist states. It’s much more efficient. You can do a much more murderous & brutal job. #Israel is one, #Taiwan is another - and #Britain has played that role. #Chomsky

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I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change things. What can I do?" I never hear these questions from peasants in southern #Colombia or #Kurds in southeastern #Turkey under miserable repression..They don't ask what they can do - they tell you what they're doing.

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My own opinion is that Snowden should be honoured, he was doing whatever a citizen ought to do.

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The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences...To do that, you've got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies - serving as their disinformation apparatus. #MSM

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The US government carries out actions that benefit corporate & financial interests. It is important to understand that privileged...sectors in society have never liked democracy, for good reasons - Democracy places power in the hands of the population and takes it away from them.

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#Propaganda very often works better for the educated than the uneducated. This is true on many issues. There are a lot of reasons for this; one being that the educated receive more of the propaganda because they read more. Another thing is that they are the agents of propaganda.

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Of course, the whole media system and the educational system are designed to drive critical thoughts from your mind. You’re taught to be a passive, obedient follower. And unless you can break out of those habits - you’ll be a victim of #propaganda . #Chomsky #ManufacturingConsent

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In the words of business leaders themselves, the task is to direct people to "the superficial things" of life, like "fashionable consumption." That way people can be atomised...seeking personal gain...diverted from dangerous efforts to think for themselves & challenge authority.

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Free capital flow creates what’s sometimes called a “virtual parliament” of global capital, which can exercise veto power over government policies it considers irrational- That means things like labor rights..or, in fact, anything that might help people and not profits. #Chomsky

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5 years

Let’s take the Russia business. Let’s say all the claims are true. Suppose Russia tried to interfere in US elections. That ought to make people laugh hysterically. There is huge interference in US elections. It comes from the corporate sector - They practically buy the elections.

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6 years

Well "subsidy" is another interesting word, kind of like "reform." It's a subsidy if public funds are used for public purposes. That's called a subsidy. It's not called a subsidy when they go to private wealth - That's reform. #Chomsky #StateCapitalism #WhenWordsLoseTheirMeaning

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6 years

There's always a #ClassWar going on. The United States, to an unusual extent, is a business-run society, more so than others. The business classes are very class-conscious, they're constantly fighting a bitter class war to improve their power and diminish opposition. #Chomsky

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6 years

Of the..100 leading transnationals in the Fortune list..it turns out that all 100...had benefited from..State intervention..And 20 of the 100 had been saved from total disaster..remember that the nanny State has to be very powerful in order to bail out the rich. #StateCapitalism

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6 years

(The propaganda system is) extremely unstable because of..reliance on lies.Any system that's based on lying & deceit is inherently unstable.But..it (has) enormous resilience and..little challenge..sufficiently marginalized so the impact of the propaganda..is powerful & pervasive.

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4 years

What's called "capitalism" is...corporate mercantilism, with huge...private tyrannies exercising...control over the economy...operating in close co-operation with powerful states that intervene...in the...economy...That's dramatically true of the US, contrary to much illusion.

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8 years

They have come to use the term "peace process" to mean the process by which the US attacks another country, that's the peace process.

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5 years

I don’t...suggest the deceit is conscious.Much more likely...the enormous power of conformity to convention...what #Gramsci called hegemonic “common sense.” Some ideas aren't even rejected.They're unthinkable. Like the idea US aggression is aggression; it can only be “a mistake."

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5 years

In the final analysis we...have 2 choices: We can...descend into pessimism & apathy, assuming nothing can be done...helping to ensure the worst will happen. Or we can grasp the opportunities that exist...and pursue them...thus helping to contribute to a better world. #ChomskyDay

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5 years

In societies where indigenous populations have an influence, many are taking a strong stand.The strongest of any country with regard to global warming is in Bolivia, which has an indigenous majority and constitutional requirements that protect the "rights of nature" @evoespueblo

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5 years

#Iran is regularly depicted as the greatest threat to world peace—in the US that is. Global opinion differs, regarding the US as the greatest threat to world peace, but the US population is protected from this unwelcome news by the "Free Press" #Chomsky #BrainwashingUnderFreedom

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-Having committed grave breaches of int'l law in Friday's cowardly assassinations, @realdonaldtrump threatens to commit again new breaches of JUS COGENS; -Targeting cultural sites is a WAR CRIME; -Whether kicking or screaming, end of US malign presence in West Asia has begun.

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I think it's one of the best established conclusions in the social sciences that the media serve..a propaganda function, i.e., they shape perceptions..offer interpretations, etc, in conformity with the needs of the power centers in society, which are..the state & corporate world.

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4 years

One of the...illusions we live under...which is a major part of the...system of indoctrination, is the idea the government's the power...the government's not the power...Real power's in the hands of the people who own the society; the state-managers are...just servants. #Bakunin

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6 years

(Schools) are institutions for #indoctrination , for imposing obedience, for blocking the possibility of independent thought, and they play an institutional role in a system of control & coercion. #BrainwashingUnderFreedom #ManufacturingConsent #NecessaryIllusions #Propaganda

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4 years

People with power and wealth are relatively free. Freedom is a commodity, like anything else in #capitalist society. You have as much of it as you can buy. And if you’re wealthy and the right color, you can buy a lot. #Chomsky #ManufacturingConsent #BrainwashingUnderFreedom

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5 years

In the 20s, the major manual of the PR industry...was titled "Propaganda" (in those days, people were a...bit more honest). It opens...like this: the conscious & intelligent manipulation of the organized habits & opinions of the masses is a central feature of a democratic system.

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5 years

In 1995 (the #Internet ) was privatized. Since then...the character of it changed...there's been a lot of concern in power centers all over the world that it’s...too free & open. They want to shape & modify it to lead people in preferred directions. #Chomsky #ManufacturingConsent

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8 years

I mean, would the US have invaded Iraq if its main exports were pickles and lettuce? You'd have to be an imbecile to think that.

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7 years

(The USSR) was about as remote from socialism as you can imagine.The core notion of traditional socialism is that working people have to be in control of production & communities have to be in control of their own lives.The Soviet Union was the exact opposite of that. #1917LIVE

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8 years

The US has been interfering with and undermining elections all over the world for decades and is proud of it.

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6 years

In the West you don't get in any trouble if you tell the truth, but you still can't do it. Not only can't you tell the truth, you can't think the truth. It's so deeply embedded, deeply instilled, that without any meaningful coercion it (mimics the result of) a totalitarian state.

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6 years

The elite institutions like, say, #Harvard & #Princeton ...are very much geared to socialization. If you go through a place like Harvard, most of what goes on there is teaching manners - how to behave like a member of the upper classes, how to think the right thoughts, and so on.

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6 years

Any kind of illegitimate authority that exists...huge states & transnational corporations, every such form of authority has to demonstrate legitimacy.They have the burden of proof and...almost always that burden can't be met. When it can't be met - it should simply be dismantled.

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7 years

Julian #Assange has performed an enormous service to all the people in the world who treasure the values of freedom and democracy @wikileaks

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@quotes_chomsky

6 years

Where did electronics, aviation & telecommunications come from? From public funds.They didn't have anything to do with the free market.They came from public funds which were transferred to high-technology industry under conscious guise, deceit, of security - And it was conscious.

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6 years

A century ago during the early stages of the corporatization of America discussion about these matters was quite frank. Conservatives a century ago denounced the procedure, describing corporatization as a “return to feudalism”..which is not an entirely inappropriate analogy. @GOP

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5 years

One who views #LatinAmerica today might well assume that #Hitler had won the war, though in fact it is American liberalism that a bears a major responsibility for the plague of terror and torture regimes that often mimic the #Nazis . #Chomsky #USimperialism #StateTerrorism

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4 years

The Cold War was a...tacit arrangement between the USSR & US under which the US conducted its wars against the 3rd World & controlled its allies...while the Soviet rulers kept an iron grip on their own...empire...each...using the other to justify repression...in its own domains.

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6 years

Perhaps Americans should know that polls run by the leading US polling agency found that...world opinion regarded the United States as the greatest threat to world peace, no competitor even close; surely not #Iran , which wins that prize in US commentary. #Chomsky #USimperialism

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5 years

The term "terrorism" is...used as a term of abuse, not...description.There are official definitions of terrorism...But they are not used, because they do not distinguish between good and bad...terrorism.That distinction is determined by the agent of the crime, not its character.

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