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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

~Noam Chomsky

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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

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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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people. The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.

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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: December 7th, 1928

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