Noam Chomsky
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a libertarian socialist quoting luminaries like noam chomsky, howard zinn, emma goldman, mikhail bakunin….
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a democratic society is one in which the public has the means to participate in some meaningfull way in the management of their own affairs
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@politico
Biggest challenge
@BernieSanders
will face: Relentless corporate media distractions from actually policy.
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The people don’t have control over their jobs, healthcare, education or government. Riots are the frustrated expression of power by the powerless, destroying a society that largely is not theirs.
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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@indystar
Nicotine vape pens are a much safer alternative to cigarettes & have helped many people quit tobacco & prolong their lives. The students sent to the ER after using THC vapes should’ve been sent home because they were suffering from no medical condition other than a panic attack.
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Change comes through educating, organizing, striking, boycotting, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they need.
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Noam Chomsky: "The corona virus crisis might bring people to think about what kind of world we want... There is the possibility that people will organize, become engaged and bring about a much better world."
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#BernieSanders
represents a majority of Americans who want corporate money out of politics, the other candidates represent a lunatic fringe.
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The US names its murder weapons after victims of its crimes: Apache, Blackhawk, Cheyenne. What if Hitler named his fighter jets Jew & Gypsy?
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In Iran, the Grand Ayatollah chooses who runs for office. In the US, the corporations choose who runs for office. I’m not sure which system is worse.
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@politico
Opinion: Politico doing everything possible to shift media focus from actual policy.
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“Nationalism, religious bigotry & feudal loyalty are far more powerful forces than what is described as sanity. Creatures out of the Dark Ages have come marching into the present, & if they are ghosts, they are at any rate ghosts which need a strong magic to lay them.” -Orwell
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful & murder respectable & to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- Orwell
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If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is fold their arms and the world will stop.
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The Democrats abandoned the working class by the late 1970s. Handing them over to their class enemy, the Republicans who mobilize them on cultural issues. Republicans are shafting them at every turn but you can mobilize them on abortion, immigrants, guns, anything but real issues
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The ruling class destroys idealism, solidarity & concern for the poor & oppressed & replaces these dangerous feelings w self-centered egoism
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The US govt has limited capacity to coerce. Corporations may try but they don't have the mechanisms. A lot can be won if people organize.
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@dbongino
It’s too bad we haven’t had any good conservatives to shut the FISA court down since it’s creation in 1978.
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@indystar
Intellectual lightweight
@Leo_Morris1
points to the poorest countries when describing socialist societies but fails to mention the prosperous socialist systems of Western Europe. Also, his quote below accurately depicts the current American system. Its laughable and sad.
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@PostOpinions
@QuicoToro
Omar’s outrage is appropriately targeted towards death squads funded by American taxpayers.
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In the US, the schools, the churches & the mass media teach that to be rich is a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign a personal failure.
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Torture is hideous enough; the invasion of Iraq was a far worse crime. Quite commonly, selective atrocities serve to distract the public.
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There is nothing democratic about the United States. The country is ran by a thousand little dictators.
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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
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Most of the US media encourages vigorous debate within a spectrum of acceptable corporate thought. The problem is not competitors to truth, it’s that truth has no representation at all.
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The US constitution was designed to check democratic tendencies & to exclude those not rich or prominent from exercising political power.
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Journalists in any position of national prominence were chosen not because of their superior analysis or unique abilities but because their world view conforms to that of concentrated public and corporate power.
@MSNBC
@FoxNews
@CNN
@chucktodd
@nytimes
@washingtonpost
@WSJ
@ABC
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Low income people are effectively excluded from the political system, their opinions and attitudes ignored by their formal representatives.
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@Ocasio2018
Please stop talking about yourself and focus on promoting policies that will help people.
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As has commonly been the case since the colonial era, US "humanitarian intervention" led to catastrophe for the alleged beneficiaries.
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The goal is to reform enslaving & degrading corporations & recreate them as free & humanizing institutions.
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Since we can scarcely see what is happening before our eyes, it is not surprising that events at a slight distance are utterly invisible.
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The totalitarian system of thought control is far less effective than the democratic one.
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Neither party is prepared to challenge the divine right of the US to intervene by force in the internal affairs of other countries.
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US forces are completing the radicalization of the Islamic world, something bin Laden had been trying & failing to do since the early 1990s.
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if you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise
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Historical amnesia not only undermines moral & intellectual integrity but also lays the groundwork for crimes that lie ahead.
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Bin Laden planned to drive the US from the Muslim world by drawing Americans into a series of expensive wars to ultimately bankrupt them.
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Communism and capitalism have been united in their opposition to popular revolution.
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The US media should focus on oppression in the global south where Americans share responsibility rather than atrocities in Russia & China.
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Victims of American power, unlike those in enemy states, are not merely ignored and quickly forgotten but are also cynically insulted.
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@washingtonpost
While the US is deployed in conflicts all around the world, operations which the American public largely knows nothing about, the Washington Post is out here doing deep digging investigative journalism. Bravo!
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A society based on control by private wealth is one where normal human instincts of sympathy, solidarity & mutual support are driven out.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. George Orwell, 1984
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@matthewjdowd
Most of the media encourages vigorous debate within a spectrum of acceptable corporate thought. The problem is not competitors to truth, it’s that truth has no representation at all.
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Anarchism means opposition to structures of authority and domination unless they can justify themselves. I suspect most people believe that. Libertarians in the US are fundamentally calling for rule by unaccountable private tyrannies. I don’t see anything libertarian about that.
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The US Congress holds hearings bashing corporate criminals to satisfy a disillusioned public while leaving the underlying system intact.
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#washweekpbs
focusing exclusively on the irrelevant minutia of impeachment and fake Sanders-Warren beef, ignoring the Democratic primary’s focus on working class issues, typical neoliberal BS.
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Genocide & slavery built the US economy with the consequence of reservations for the survivors & prisons for the superfluous population.
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Corporate propaganda is corrosive of human relations, it makes people hate and fear each other and not want to do anything for anyone else.
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From 1960-1990, US sanctioned political prisoners, torture victims & executions in Latin America vastly exceeded those in the Soviet Union.
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A prominent feature of contemporary society is antagonism to mass movements & social changes that escape the control of privileged elites.
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Why doesn't
@billmaher
explain Clinton's record on international affairs or how much money she plans to spend on bombing people next year?
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Decisions should be made by small groups of people in their neighborhoods & places of work, cooperatives in communication with one another.
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@MSNBC
Carry water for oligarchs and they give you regular speaking spots on corporate media
@DrJasonJohnson
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@thehill
Mayor Pete Buttigieg: “I’m a blank canvas on which you can project your wildest fantasies. Just don’t expect me to talk about any policy that will actually help you.”
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A society based on control by private wealth reflects the values of greed and the desire to maximize personal gain at the expense of others.
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Scholars who line up in service of the state are typically praised by the general intellectual community, those who refuse are punished.
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@NPR
Wouldn’t the percentage of positive coverage Bernie received from US corporate media be a far more relevant statistic?
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Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent revisited | Europe | Al Jazeera
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In 1930s Spain, the workers had the conviction that the factory belong to them and that they were working for themselves and their brothers.
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The aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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@VICE
Why did I read that entire article? It was so dumb. Trying to appear woke by explaining the social and economic motivations behind an entertainer being booed, the humanity! Its fairly simple: The crowd was not pleased. Please find something, anything else to write about.
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@TomPerez
@TheDemocrats
How about universal health care? Defunding the American empire? And publicly funded elections and universities? The democrats will continue to flounder as long as corporate shills like
@TomPerez
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In a democratic society all institutions (govt, industry, tech, trade, media, education, health) are under participatory democratic control.
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free speech is available only to those who can afford it
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The
@WSJ
and
@nytimes
don’t do journalism. They do corporate propaganda, critical indoctrination dissemination for the state capitalist system. It’s doing splendid.
From
@WSJopinion
: Journalism remains critical, but how’s it doing? In this week’s Future View, college students weigh in.
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France's Civilizing Mission, Britain's Novelty in the World, Japan's Earthly Paradise & US American Exceptionalism are nothing of the sort.
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An Hour with Noam Chomsky on Fascism, Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, Julian Assange & More via
@democracynow
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"do you not know that a multitude of your bretheren die or suffer from need of what you have in excess" rousseau
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There is popular mobilization and activism but in the form of unfocused anger, attacks on one another and on vulnerable targets.
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@indystar
Police should only respond to citizens’ calls for help. They should not be out looking for crime, which results in biased application of the law, disproportionately targeting young, poor minorities.
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"nor will it admit any laws but its own laws; nor any authority but its own authority" oscar wilde
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The 9/11 attacks could've been approached as a crime with an operation to apprehend the suspects. No such idea was considered by Washington.
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there is nothing more absurd & harmful than to compress all the aspirations of the people into the narrow mold of spurious nationalism
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When will this international tribunal be convicting the last surviving leaders of the Nixon regime of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Cambodia?
The last surviving leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that brutally ruled Cambodia in the 1970s were convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes by an international tribunal.
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In western state capitalist societies, objective power is based ultimately on control of capital, not party membership or expertise.
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@NBCNews
When will this international tribunal be convicting the last surviving leaders of the Nixon regime of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Cambodia?
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The fixed presupposition of foreign policy discussion in US corporate media is that America owns the entire world.
If dictators were smarter, they would adopt the systems of indoctrination that are employed, often quite consciously, in more democratic societies: let debate rage, but within limits set by fixed presuppositions, which express the basic interests of power.
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Structures of authority, domination and hierarchy have to justify themselves, if they can't, they should be dismantled.
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If the state capitalist order is to survive, it is necessary to return the population to apathy, passivity and defeatism.
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@WSJ
@WSJopinion
The
@WSJ
and
@nytimes
don’t do journalism. They do corporate propaganda, critical indoctrination dissemination for the state capitalist system. It’s doing splendid.
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