Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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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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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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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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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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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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