In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
NOAM CHOMSKYI didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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