John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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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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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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