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Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a b...more

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I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them...more

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Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

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That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody know...more

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Modern industrial civilisation has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilisation has been...more

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Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called “moderate Re...more

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... if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong) for us. Those who do not rise to th...more

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This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.

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Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity, and that's institutional, but occasionally you get a spark, somebody'll challenge your mind, ...more

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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist ...more

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These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence...more

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They declare that it is unpatriotic and disruptive to question the workings of authority--but patriotic to institute harsh and regressive policies tha...more

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By now, they rank people by income level or wages roughly the same: The bottom seventy per cent or so are virtually disenfranchised; they have almost ...more

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The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.