You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
NOAM CHOMSKYWanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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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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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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