The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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