In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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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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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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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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