Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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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 truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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