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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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