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 drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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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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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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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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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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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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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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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