Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
NOAM CHOMSKYHuman language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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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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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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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 a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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