Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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The 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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