It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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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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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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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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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