It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt 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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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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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 Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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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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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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It 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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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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