Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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