Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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 truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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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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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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