The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
NOAM CHOMSKYI took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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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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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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