The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt 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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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