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 very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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