I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
NOAM CHOMSKYDebt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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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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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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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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