The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
NOAM CHOMSKYTwo 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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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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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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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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 the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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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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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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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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