The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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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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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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