In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
NOAM CHOMSKYNATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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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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