There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
NOAM CHOMSKYNicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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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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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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