It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
NOAM CHOMSKYNicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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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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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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