Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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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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