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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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 European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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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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