I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
NOAM CHOMSKYNineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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