John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
NOAM CHOMSKYOnce 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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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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There 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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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.
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