The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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 leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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