Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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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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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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 Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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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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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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