If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Perhaps 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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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