The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural characteristics: the extreme inequality of wealth, the deterioration of infrastructure because it only serves poor people, predatory operations, huge corruption, and so on.
Noam ChomskyMost of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed.
Noam ChomskyPredatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.
Noam ChomskyWhen something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it.
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