Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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