Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt 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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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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