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 CHOMSKYNATO 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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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 leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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