It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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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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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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