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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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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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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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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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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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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 principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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 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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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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