The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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