If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
NOAM CHOMSKYPropaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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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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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.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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