So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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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?
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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