Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
NOAM CHOMSKYImmediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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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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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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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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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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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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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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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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