Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order

Stability” means security for “the upper classes and large foreign enterprises,” whose welfare must be preserved

Their 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent, remains the starting point for any serious inquiry into news media performance.

The economic consequences of these policies have been the same just about everywhere, and exactly what one would expect: a massive increase in social and economic inequality, a marked increase in severe deprivation for the poorest nations and peoples of the world

Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

One should take careful note of the fact that the leading Central American dissident intellectuals were doubly assassinated: both murdered and silenced. Their words, indeed their very existence, are scarcely known in the United States, unlike dissidents in enemy states, who are greatly honored and admired.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal.