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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

Noam Chomsky

I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Against Argument I Meed Use Violence
The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Deal Exactly Nicaragua Problem Right Terrorism Way
If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Affair International Mafia Much Run
The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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Design Globalisation Interest Investor Own Power Right Specific Term Wealth
It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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