It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
NOAM CHOMSKYPerhaps 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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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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