A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
NOAM CHOMSKYI like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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