It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
NOAM CHOMSKYThat’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 truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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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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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 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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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 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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 United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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