While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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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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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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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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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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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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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