Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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