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Few Americans other than the One Percent have a stake in the American economic and political system.

I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests.

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For a country to be looted, its people's voice must be silenced.

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Paul Krugman, a professor at MIT and a consultant to the IMF, the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Trilateral Commission, is certainly a member of the establishment.

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Law is just one public institution, but it is a cornerstone of society. When law goes, everything goes.

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The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. 'Free trade' is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use lawsuits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.

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I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.

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Globalism is a scheme for impoverishing First World labor and taking power and influence from the hands of the many and putting them in the hands of the few.

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In 21st century America, capitalism has been unfettered from the regulations that democratized it and made it serve society.

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Vice is Washington's signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness, and the mockery and destruction of human life.

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The U.S. is ruled by private interest groups and by the neoconservative ideology that history has chosen the U.S. as the 'exceptional and indispensable' country with the right and responsibility to impose its will on the world.

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There are no free financial markets in America or, for that matter, anywhere in the Western word, and few, if any, free markets of any other kind.

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The office of U.S. Trade Representative was created in order to permit corporations to write law that serves only their interests.

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Progressives regard government as the white knight that protects the public from the greed of capitalists. If only.

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Both political parties, Republicans and Democrats, are dependent on the same private interest groups for campaign funds, so both parties dance to the same masters.

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Putin does not lie. When he says something, he means it.

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We need a memorial day to commemorate the victims of neoliberal globalization.

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The American people and the entire world need to understand that the threat to life on earth resides in Washington and that until Washington is fundamentally and totally changed, this threat will remain as the worse threat to life on earth.

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The way to attack the entitlements problem is to bring the jobs home. This could be done by taxing corporations according to the location, domestic or foreign, at which they add value to their product.

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Marxism is a success because it fuses the two inconsistent strains in Western thought - moral skepticism and moral indignation - and makes them complements in the attack against existing society.

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The concentration of U.S. income and wealth in the hands of the very rich is a new development in my lifetime.

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There is no reason for a person to have thousands of millions of dollars.

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As the dollar's exchange value declines, so will the value of dollar-denominated financial instruments, regardless of how many bonds the Federal Reserve purchases.

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The human capital of most macroeconomists, heavily invested in demand management, was wiped out by the policy failures of the 1970s.

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I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality.

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Clearly the climate is changing, whether caused by CO2 emissions or some other cause.

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As the U.S. is import-dependent, this will translate into higher domestic prices.

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A government that cannot survive truth and must resort to stamping out truth is not a government that any country wants.

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It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other.

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The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.

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When I met with Chinese policymakers in 2006, I advised them that there was a limit to how long they could rely on the U.S. consumer market, as jobs offshoring was destroying it.

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There was no terrorism in the Middle East until Washington brought it there with invasions, bombings, and torture.

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In the Matrix in which Americans live, nothing is ever their fault.

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The neoconservative ideology supports American financial and military-political imperialism or hegemony.

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The great problem with corporate capitalism is that publicly owned companies have short time horizons. Unlike a privately owned business, the top executives of a publicly owned corporation generally come to their positions late in life. Consequently, they have a few years in which to make their fortune.

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Under Reagan's policies, inflation and nominal GNP growth shriveled much faster than predicted, throwing off government revenue estimates and resulting in budget deficits.

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In the United States, journalists receive awards for lying for the government and for the corporations.

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