There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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