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.
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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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It 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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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