Notices tagged with resources
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"if we expect most people to engage in #other difficult and complex tasks, how can we expect them to have the #time and #resources sufficient to devote themselves intelligently to #politics?" (The problem of democratic citizenship) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democracy/#ProDemCit via @simsa0 cc @question
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in chapter 3: !Chomsky "states that the drive for #resources is an important factor in U.S's imperial policy - but not the only one - and that whilst #NorthKorea was a tempting target due to its strategic location amidst the developing economies of Northeast #Asia it had a deterrent (artillery pointed at #Seoul) that Iraq lacked and goes on to point out that #Imperial occ…
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Deterring Democracy: "also contains criticism aimed at the #Soviet Union and other communist states, but its major point centres on the fact that although the US claimed to support #freedom in the Cold War, it still supported #authoritarian regimes. The conclusion that !Chomsky comes to is that, despite U.S claims of supporting freedom, their actual aim was maintaining #d…