The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
NOAM CHOMSKYI stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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