International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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The 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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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