If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere 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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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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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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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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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