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.
NOAM CHOMSKYI don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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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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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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