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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.

Noam Chomsky

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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Congo Develop Development Horror Involve Murder Story Year
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Current Facility History Leisure Lie Minority Present Training Truth
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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Aggressive Country Least Major Military Power Threat
Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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Destruction Mass Mean Missile Remember Weapon
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Accomplice Antic Gradually Hardly Most Nixon Reveal Surprise
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Card Credit Debt Enormous Especial Large Student Trap
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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Apprehend Attack Country Easily Kill Marathon Peaceful Strike Target
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Analog Animal Appear Human Language Phenomenon Significance Unique World
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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Challenge Education Environment Individual Opportunity Provide Rich
What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Abounded Act Courage Crisis Happen Make Petrified Thoughtfulness
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Citizen Enemy Government Man Own Protect Regard Themselves
If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Argue Like Say Someone
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Believe Desire Expression Freedom People
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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Arab Campaign Concern Oppression Perception President Regime Street Suppose
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Academic Among Discontent Economics Liberal Privilege Unnoticed
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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Academic Clerical Professor Routine Work World

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