Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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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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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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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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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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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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 leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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