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It is a common error, as we have pointed out several times, to interpret opposition to U.S. intervention and aggression as support for the programs of its victims, a useful device for state propagandists but one that often has no basis in fact.

— Edward S. Herman After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology, with Noam Chomsky (1979)

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National interest: The demands and needs of the corporate community.

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Conspiracy theory: A critique or explanation that I find offensive.

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Police brutality: A myth built on a mountain of cracked skulls.

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Overmature trees: In timber company and Forest Service lingo, trees which may live in splendor for another 500 years, but which would make damned fine boards today.

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Magic bullet: One that wends its way through several bodies, smashing bones on the way, but ends up in pristine condition, conveniently located for police attribution to the gun of choice.

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