“The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.”

—  Noam Chomsky

Z Magazine, May 1998 http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199805--.htm.
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