Occupation: Political Scientist Birth: 1933
The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business. Profitability rather than human n….
You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug..
Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as 'the nature of things….
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishme….
A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the privileged….
You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control ….
The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks,….
With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. ….
Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places..
People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet..
Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it….
Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feed….
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imag….
Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war polici….
In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are called lazy. Those forc….
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, gi….
Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to….
With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being….
The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty..
When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed..
The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controllin….