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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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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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Attitude Engineer History Modern Opinion Perception Process Relation Shape Term
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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Achievement Advertisement Amount Come Dynamic Entrepreneur Initiative Profit Sector Socialize Cause State Tremendous Want
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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Country Democracy Describe First Model People Political Scientist War World
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Conversation Doctrine Either Every New Repeat Same Say Something Time
If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Age Ask Benefit Economic Health Insecure More Society Worker
International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Affair International Mafia Much Run
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Country Good Harbor Many Omb Pearl Thing Very
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Anglo Concept Concert Country Good Guilty Innocent Law Memories Presumption Use
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Citizen Enemy Government Man Own Protect Regard Themselves
What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Abounded Act Courage Crisis Happen Make Petrified Thoughtfulness
I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Arrogance Atheist Business Child Dry Example Heaven Hope Join Lecture New Some
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Cannot Consumption Control Distract Population
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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Essential Existence Freedom Human Idea Phase Possible Survival Value
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Applied Country Hang However Law Nuremberg President
If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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Alone Asia Country Follow India Kick led Live Million People Save Ten Trait
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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Country Defiant Exist Nato Once Soviet Union Well Western
The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Big Extremist Gave Invasion Particular Shot
In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Basically Business Democrat Function One Party Republican
In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Bail Case Environment No One Out
I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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My Pay Tax Year
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Accept Disobedience Godfather Money Not Pay Protection Small Storekeeper
Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Eight Excite Larger Minten Movement Range Sixty Spawned
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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Few Go Make Mirror Monster People Person Savage Say
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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Aspiration Associate Children Decline Hope Hour Income Kind People Wek Work
If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Favour Fundamental Good Moral People Policy Reason Reform Stability Whatever

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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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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