NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhile the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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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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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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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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