Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
NOAM CHOMSKYUnlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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