It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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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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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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