Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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