The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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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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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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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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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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