Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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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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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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